Valerio de Carolis

About Valerio de Carolis

With several years of industry experience in software engineering, robotics, AI, including leadership roles as engineering manager, I specialize in leading the design and implementation for intelligent systems, robotics and autonomous systems, on-device computing and ML, agentic AI. Recognized for my ability to drive teams towards innovative solutions, I am deeply committed to developing new products and solving complex challenges. My research interests lie in intelligent and integrated systems, on-device and distributed AI / ML workloads, robotics and software architectures. I’ve focused on decision-making under uncertainty and planning systems.I bring a pragmatic approach to software and architecture design, with a proven track record of integrating ML solutions into both consumer and industrial systems. My background includes extensive work in on-device ML, autonomous robots, self-driving vehicles, and embedded systems focusing on diagnostics and prognostics for autonomous robots.

Experience

1. Principal Ml Engineer

   Apple

   Sep 2025 — Present · Cupertino, CA, US

   Working with AI Agents and Protocols (MCP, A2A), Large Language Models (LLM), Reinforcement Learning (RL) and Feedback loops, Model Evaluations and Robustness Analysis (LLMs, VFMs, Multimodal), Embedding Models, Privacy Preserving ML and Distributed Learning.Tech lead for several on-device ML solutions and frameworks. Working with background ML tasks, model evaluations and agents protocols. Designed embedded vector databases and storage solutions, embedding models and approximate nearest neighbor algorithms (ANN, HNSW, PQ).

Education

• Sapienza Università di Roma

  Master Degree, Telecommunications Engineering

  2010 — 2012

• Sapienza Università di Roma

  Bachelor Degree, Aerospace Information Engineering

  2007 — 2010

• Heriot-Watt University

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Robotics and Autonomous Systems

  2013 — 2016

• Liceo Scientifico Vito Volterra

  High School Diploma, Scientific High School

  2002 — 2007

• InnovAction Lab

  Business, Startup

  2011 — 2011

Skills

• Php
• Image Processing
• Radar
• Simulations
• Autonomous Vehicles
• C++
• Containerization
• Mobile Robotics
• Data Engineering
• Matlab
• Artificial Intelligence
• Microcontrollers
• Web Applications
• Research
• Machine Learning
• Open Source
• Java
• Remote Sensing
• Software Development
• Python
• Latex
• Signal Processing
• Embedded Systems
• Data Science
• Git
• Javascript
• Json
• Systems Engineering
• C
• Programming
• Optimization
• Docker
• Ros
• Sql
• Linux
• Software Prototyping
• Node.js
• Distributed Systems
• Robotics
• Testing