Francesco Taioli

I obtained my PhD (Cum Laude) in the National PhD Programme in Artificial Intelligence at the Polytechnic of Turin, under the supervision of Prof. Marco Cristani and Prof. Alessandro Farinelli.

My research follows three main directions: (i) leveraging VLMs/VLAs for spatial reasoning in navigation; (ii) uncertainty-aware navigation and human-agent interaction for handling instruction ambiguity; and (iii) neural scene representations for language-grounded perception.
My work has appeared in top-tier venues including ICCV, TPAMI, and IROS, with all code publicly available. I am particularly interested in bridging foundation models with real-world robotic systems.