Luciano Spinello

Luciano Spinello is a Research Fellow affiliated with the University of Freiburg's Department of Computer Science, working within the AIS Lab led by Prof. W. Burgard. Previously, he held roles at Amazon Research (Seattle), ETH Zurich (PhD under Prof. Roland Siegwart), and EPFL Lausanne as a research assistant. His research focuses on the intersection of computer vision and robotics, specializing in robot perception, SLAM, and autonomous systems. He has contributed to projects involving RGB-D data processing, terrain classification, and socially-aware navigation algorithms.

Education: PhD in Computer Science from ETH Zurich (2009), Electrical Engineering degree from Rome, Italy. Academic activities include organizing workshops (RSS 2014, IROS 2012), serving on program committees for robotics conferences, and editorial roles (IROS associate editor). His work emphasizes multimodal sensing, object detection in 3D environments, and robust localization across dynamic conditions.

Key technical contributions include methods for RGB-D fusion, adaptive domain adaptation, and large-scale place recognition. His research bridges theoretical advancements with practical applications in autonomous robotics, including navigation systems and human-robot interaction protocols.