Federico Tavella

Federico Tavella is a Research Associate in Machine Learning and Robotics at The University of Manchester, affiliated with the CRADLE Robotics initiative. He holds a PhD from The University of Manchester (2023) and MSc/BSc degrees from Università degli Studi di Padova. His research focuses on AI, deep learning, reinforcement learning, and human-robot interaction.

• Teaching roles: Delivered courses like COMP34212 Cognitive Robotics and supervised labs.
• Grants: Awarded UK-Italy Trustworthy AI Programme (2023) and IEEE PROGRESS Grant (2022).

Research interests span embodied AI, sign language acquisition for robots, and bio-cyber DNA storage systems. He has published extensively on topics like social robotics, multimodal learning, and threat detection in novel storage systems.

Recent work includes computational models for theory of mind in social agents and generative approaches to abstract concept learning. Active in workshops/conferences such as DeepMind (2022), IEEE PROGRESS (2022), and the Manchester Centre for Robotics and AI Inaugural Workshop (2022).