I work on motion planning and control at Neura Robotics, where we develop humanoids, collaborative arms, mobile manipulators, and AMRs. I love getting robots to work in the real world, from theory to hardware.
During my PhD and postdoc at TU Delft's Autonomous Multi-Robots Lab, I developed gradient-free optimization methods for robotics, specifically sampling-based MPC approaches that query a dynamics model (aka world model, aka foundation model, aka physics engines) hundreds of times in parallel to approximate optimal control. My thesis on model predictive path integral control was a finalist for the IEEE RAS TC-MRS Best Dissertation Award. Advised by Javier Alonso-Mora and Robert Babuska. Before that, I graduated cum laude from a Master in Systems and Control at TU Delft, working across systems from electric drives to high-resolution microscopy.
Publications and preprints
Papers sorted by recency. Representative papers are highlighted. *Equal contribution.
Elia Trevisan*, Khaled A. Mustafa*, Godert Notten, Xinwei Wang, Javier Alonso-Mora
IEEE Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2025
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Jelmer van der Saag, Elia Trevisan, Wouter Falkena, Javier Alonso-Mora
IEEE Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2025
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Corrado Pezzato*, Chadi Salmi*, Elia Trevisan*, Max Spahn, Javier Alonso-Mora, Carlos Hernández Corbato
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RAL), 2025
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Yuezhe Zhang, Corrado Pezzato, Elia Trevisan*, Chadi Salmi, Carlos Hernández Corbato, Javier Alonso-Mora
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RAL), 2024
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Elia Trevisan, Javier Alonso-Mora
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RAL), 2024
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Walter Jansma, Elia Trevisan, Álvaro Serra-Gómez, Javier Alonso-Mora
IEEE International Symposium on Multi-Robot and Multi-Agent Systems (MRS), 2023 (Best Paper Finalist)
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Lucas Streichenberg*, Elia Trevisan*, Jen Jen Chung, Roland Siegwart, Javier Alonso-Mora
IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2023
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Corrado Pezzato*, Chadi Salmi*, Elia Trevisan*, Javier Alonso-Mora, Carlos Hernandez Corbato
Embracing Contacts Workshop at IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2023 (Best Paper Finalist)
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Jitske de Vries, Elia Trevisan, Jules van der Toorn, Tuhin Das, Bruno Brito, Javier Alonso-Mora
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2022
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Theses
Elia Trevisan
PhD Thesis in Robotics at TU Delft, 2025
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Elia Trevisan
Master Thesis in Systems and Control at TU Delft, 2020 (Cum Laude)
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