• Lead the research and development of innovative technologies related to the collection, processing, and secure handling of biometric data (including facial, voice, and behavioral characteristics) for the creation of digital replicas of public figures (our Talents). This is done with a rigorous focus on safeguarding personal identity rights and preventing unauthorized use.
• Spearhead advanced R&D into the development of autonomous virtual humans, Gen-AI digital replicas, and Gen-AI autonomous agents, with a forward-looking approach towards future applications in VR/AR, Web4, and beyond, all while ensuring full control over Talent image rights.
• Oversee the creation of a robust platform that tracks usage, verifies authenticity, and certifies the provenance of all digital assets representing Talents, ensuring protection against identity theft, deepfake abuse, or misrepresentation.
• Direct the implementation of cutting-edge systems for the safe creation, management, and licensing of digital replicas, guaranteeing that all usage complies with stringent legal standards for public IP protection.
• Collaborate closely with company leadership to align technological advancements with business objectives, ensuring the protection of Talent rights while enabling secure and profitable monetization of digital assets.
• Work directly with leadership to drive the strategic growth of the tech team, fostering an environment of innovation and excellence, and building a team capable of delivering on the company’s mission to protect and enhance the digital identities of Talents.

• Develop and advise on the architectural vision and roadmap for the implementation of a procedural and programmable animation engine for social robotics applications that can be deployed and adapted to various embodiments and tasks, while supporting a design-based authoring approach.
• Work with the company on the overall concept of a robot operating system supporting such engine and its integration with current and future AI and ML techniques that may be developed or adopted for human-robot interaction applications.

• Lead the concept and development of a roadmap and platform for Autonomous Virtual Clones if public figures that can exist and act in 3D realities.
• Lead the development of an MVP using Unreal Engine’s Metahumans and a custom Brain controller that uses external services such as STT, TTS and LLMs to endow the Metahuman with real-time intelligent interaction capabilities.

Available for short-term consulting for companies and projects seeking advising and know-how on the adoption, application, and development of artificial intelligence and AI-driven mechanisms to enable their products and solutions.

In particular, I can provide expertise in the fields of:

• Autonomous Digital Humans and Characters
• Human-Robot Interaction
• User Experience and Product Vision using AI technologies
• Metaverse-directed applications
• LLM adoption/integration, fine-tuning and local deployment

AGI company that provides Autonomous Digital People for a variety of markets

Focused on delivering product value through R&D that intersects the fields of computer graphics animation and artificial intelligence, including, but not limited to the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI within the context of interactive, autonomous behaviour and motion for full body virtual human characters. In my vision, the success of this R&D lies in working together with an animation director.

Within the challenge of creating new methods for real-time autonomous character animation that is based on the artist-CGI-AI triad, my responsabilities included:

• Lead the technical and architectural development of the autonomous animation system.
• Develop autonomous gesturing and social and emotional behaviours of digital people.
• Participate in the product strategy with feedback from/to technology development.
• Work with artists to ensure the animated motion looks natural and is fail-safe.
• Invent mechanisms that enable autonomous animation of digital characters.
• Create pipelines and workflows that allow to train, evaluate and integrate ML models (e.g. LLMs, GenAI) for animation
• Promote, support and lead the transfer of research into product.
• Establish directives for autonomous behaviour design and selection.
• Provide guidelines for expressive behaviour of emotion and personality.
• Define instruments to measure animate and interactive qualities of autonomous digital characters.

AGI company that provides Autonomous Digital People for a variety of markets

Responsibilities include:

• Design and develop the skeletal animation system.
• Develop autonomous gesturing and social and emotional behaviours of digital people.
• Work with artists to ensure the animated motion looks natural and is fail-safe.
• Invent mechanisms that enable autonomous animation of digital characters.
• Establish directives for autonomous behaviour design and selection.
• Provide guidelines for expressive behaviour of emotion and personality.
• Define instruments to measure animate and interactive qualities of autonomous digital characters.

Smart food company

• Created custom ETL pipeline using Python from various sources into Google BigQuery.
• Datascience tasks using Google’s BigQuery SQL, DataStudio and Spreadsheets.

Reseach Lab

• Developed an HRI platform for various projects and robots
• Provided guidance and assistance to various MSc and PhD student project

Embodied Perceptive Tutors for Empathy-Based Learning

• Research Assistant
• Architecture Design & Development,
• Behaviour Management & Animation

LIving with Robots and Embodied Companions

• Research Assistant
• Robot Animation System