Davide Tateo has been a Senior lecturer in the Robotics and Semantic Systems Group at Lund University since October 1st, 2025.
Davide received his Ph.D. in Information Technology from Politecnico di Milano (Milan, Italy) in February 2019. Afterwards, he joined the Intelligent Autonomous System Group of Prof. Jan Peters, first as a postdoctoral researcher and then as Research Group Leader from April 2019 to September 2025. From April 1st to September 30th, 2025, he also served as a substitute professor at the PEARL lab of Prof. Georgia Chalvatzaki.
During his Ph.D. research, Davide worked under the supervision of Prof. Andrea Bonarini and Prof. Marcello Restelli, focusing particularly on Hierarchical and Inverse Reinforcement Learning. He also co-developed MushroomRL, a Reinforcement Learning Python library.
During his stay at TU Darmstadt, as a research group leader, Davide led the Safe and Reliable Robot Learning Research Group.
The main goal of his research group was to develop learning algorithms that can be deployed on real systems. To achieve this objective, the group focuses on fundamental properties of the learning algorithm, such as acting under (safety) constraints, robustness, and learning efficiency.
I also collaborate with the
Lund AI Society to promote AI research among students at Lund University. On
this page, you can find some of our research opportunities, master's theses, and projects.