Mariella Dimiccoli

Mariella Dimiccoli is a Científica Titular (equivalent to Professor) at the Institute for Robotics and Industrial Informatics (IRI), a joint research center of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). She is actively involved in cutting-edge research in computer vision, robotics, and multimodal AI, with a focus on egocentric vision, action recognition, and temporal video understanding.

• Position: Científica Titular (Professor)
• Institution: IRI, UPC-CSIC
• Research Subline: Perception and Manipulation
• Email: mdimiccoli@iri.upc.edu

Her research interests center on enabling machines to understand human actions and interactions through visual and auditory signals. She works extensively on unsupervised and weakly supervised learning methods for video analysis, particularly in untrimmed and egocentric videos. Her work integrates insights from robotics, machine learning, and cognitive science to build systems capable of perceiving and predicting human behavior in dynamic environments.

The recent publications highlight a strong trend in temporal modeling of video data, multimodal fusion (especially audio-visual), and explainable AI. Her work spans from fundamental representation learning to applied robotics, with a consistent focus on grounding AI models in real-world sensor data and human behavior.

She actively supervises graduate students and leads significant research projects such as AWESOME and SAFEDYP025, which aim to model temporal structures in videos and enable safe autonomous planning through episodic memory. These projects reflect her leadership in integrating prior knowledge into AI systems for long-term autonomy.

• PhD Student: Elena Belén Bueno Benito
• Master's Student: Xabier Blázquez González

Her research is supported by national and European funding, including participation in the RAMON LLULL: AIRA Postdoctoral Programme and leadership in projects like AWESOME and GreenVAR. These grants underscore her role in advancing AI and robotics in Spain and Europe.

Mariella Dimiccoli leads research within the Perception and Manipulation subline at IRI, contributing to the development of intelligent robotic systems that can perceive, interpret, and interact with humans and environments through multimodal sensing and learning.