Alessandro Colotti

Postdoctoral researcher @ Inria

Centre Inria de l'Université de Rennes, France

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Hello!

I'm currently a postdoctoral researcher at Inria - IRISA in Rennes, France under the supervision of François Chaumette. I had my PhD in robotics and dynamical systems theory at LS2N in Nantes, France under the supervision of Alexandre Goldsztejn and Olivier Kermorgant, in December 2023.

My main research interests are the stability analysis and the computation of regions of attraction for non-linear, multi-stable dynamical systems, in particular passive systems evolving on manifolds, with applications in robotics and especially image-based visual servoing.

I love everything math-related, and I'm always up for learning more. I come from a theoretical-heavy background, with strong foundations in advanced calculus, linear algebra and non-linear differential equations, and, throughout my PhD, I had the opportunity to work on non-smooth analysis, set-valued functions theory, global and parametric optimization, differential geometry and Morse theory among other things.

While I have a natural inclination for the theoretical aspects of dynamical systems’ theory, I enjoy the challenge of trying to apply these abstract concepts to realistic robotic models. I also have a knack for programming (Julia, Mathematica, C++, Python, Matlab).