Mattia Piccinini
Hi! I am Mattia Piccinini, a Humboldt Post-doctoral Fellow at the Autonomous Vehicle Systems (AVS) Lab, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany.
My research lies at the intersection of robotics, machine learning, and control. I develop algorithms for real-time trajectory planning, control, and estimation of autonomous robots, with a focus on ground vehicles in uncertain, dynamic environments. I like to integrate prior knowledge of the robot dynamics into learning-based methods, such as neural networks, to enhance their generalization to unseen scenarios with minimal training data.
A 3-minute video presentation of my Ph.D. research is available here.
Are you passionate about AI-robotics research? 
Then reach out to me to collaborate! 
news
| Mar 13, 2026 |  I was at the German Robotics Conference to present 3 papers on minimum-time velocity planning and locomotion in robotics! Read them here!   |
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| Mar 10, 2026 | 1 Paper presented at the International Academic Conference on Education, about Robotics Academic Education! Read the abstract here! |
| Mar 01, 2026 | I am serving as Associate Editor for IEEE ITSC and IEEE IROS! |
| Feb 25, 2026 | 🏎️ I am coordinating an Invited Session on Automated Vehicles at the Limits: Lessons and Opportunities from the Racetrack for IEEE ITSC! |
| Feb 15, 2026 | 🔬 I received the Seal Of Excellence from the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Post-doctoral Action! |
| Feb 10, 2026 | 🇮🇹 I gave a talk at the Altair Research Group at the University of Verona, Italy. Thanks Prof. Riccardo Muradore and Prof. Alessandro Farinelli for the invitation! |
| Jan 08, 2026 | 1 Paper accepted at IEEE RA-L on learning-based differentiable nonlinear MPC: read it here! 🏎️ |
| Dec 01, 2025 |  I was awarded the Humboldt Post-doctoral Fellowship at the Autonomous Vehicle Systems Lab, Technical University of Munich, Germany! |
| Nov 25, 2025 |  I visited the MOVEMENT Research Group at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), The Netherlands, to collaborate on autonomous driving research!  |
| Nov 21, 2025 | My PhD thesis obtained the IEEE ITSS Best Dissertation Award, which was awarded at the 2025 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC)! |
| Oct 20, 2025 | I obtained the Best Workshop Paper Award at the 2025 IEEE IROS conference (Hangzhou, China), Workshop on Planning, Perception and Navigation for Intelligent Vehicles! |
| Sep 29, 2025 | I gave an invited talk at an online workshop organized by Ekumen! Watch it here! |
| Sep 10, 2025 | I obtained the Best Ph.D. Thesis Award by the journal MDPI Vehicles!  |