Matteo El Hariry

Matteo El Hariry

I develop simulators and reinforcement learning controllers for complex autonomous robots: satellites, wing-in-ground aircraft, wheeled rovers and more. PhD from the University of Luxembourg (2025); previously ML Engineer at Argotec, on autonomous navigation for LICIACube (NASA DART) and ArgoMoon (NASA Artemis I).

Research & Projects

ICE2THRUST 2025–present

RL-based autonomous rendezvous and docking for an EIC Pathfinder demonstrator that turns water ice into thrust.

Lead Research Scientist · Shown: SCoCaT, CoRL 2026

AIRSHIP FALCON-S 2023–present

RL flight control and a high-fidelity ground-effect simulator for unmanned wing-in-ground vehicles.

Lead Research Scientist · Horizon Europe

RoboRAN 2025

One IsaacLab framework for RL navigation across robots, tasks and media, with sim-to-real transfer.

TMLR 2025 · Project website ↗

DRIFT 2024

Deep RL control of floating platforms, microgravity analogs for space navigation, from simulation to the lab.

IROS 2024 (oral)

REACT 2021

Deep RL attitude control for nanosatellites, robust to reaction-wheel failures.

NeurIPS 2021 workshop · Argotec

CV

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Experience

  1. 2026–
    CTO & Co-founder · NaubotiX, Luxembourg

    Off-world robotic autonomy.

  2. 2026–
    Postdoctoral Researcher · University of Luxembourg

    Leads AI research for autonomous robots in Horizon Europe and EIC Pathfinder projects: work-package coordination, simulation and control frameworks, mentoring 2 PhD students, 1 MSc student and 1 research engineer.

  3. 2022–2025
    Doctoral Researcher · University of Luxembourg

    ML and RL for autonomous navigation of space and terrestrial robots; lead developer of simulation frameworks for satellites, aerial and aquatic robots.

  4. 2019–2022
    Machine Learning Engineer · Argotec R&D, Turin

    RL controllers and simulators for satellite GNC; AI-based visual navigation on flight hardware for LICIACube (NASA DART) and ArgoMoon (NASA Artemis I).

Education

  1. 2022–2025
    PhD in Computer Science · University of Luxembourg

    Thesis: Deep Reinforcement Learning Control for Autonomous Robots Mobility in Highly Uncertain Environments

  2. 2016–2019
    MSc Computer Science & Engineering · Politecnico di Milano

    ML and AI track; thesis on RL for nanosatellite attitude control.

  3. 2014–2015
    Double degree, Information Technologies & Engineering · Tongji University, Shanghai

Service

  1. 2025
    Co-organizer, AI4OPA workshop on AI for On-Orbit and Planetary Autonomy · iSpaRo 2025, Japan
  2. Ongoing
    Reviewer · ICRA, IROS, CoRL, RA-L, CRL, IEEE TAI
  3. Ongoing
    Mentor · refugees in Luxembourg, RYSE Association

Publications

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