Staff AI/Robotics Scientist (Ph.D.) with +18 years experience in robotics across academia and industry. Specializing in contact-rich, data-driven manipulation: built reactive primitive frameworks, sim-to-real and synthetic data pipelines, intuitive physics prediction, and human intent inference on high-DOF (dual-arm PA-10, UR, Fanuc, Baxter) platforms; 50+ granted patents and 20+ publications underpin robust grasp planning, perception, and autonomy stack contributions. Proficient in Python/C++, Linux, ROS2, PyTorch, MoveIt!, PyBullet/Drake/Gazebo and Blender.
Work Experience
Staff AI/ML Research Scientist
Intel Labs, Intel Corporation
02/24 – Present (1 yr 6 mo)
Led PM-Cobots project integrating Fanuc/UR hardware with AI perception, motion planning & autonomous workflows; achieved 50% technician load reduction.
Challenge Empty a box of unknown, cluttered objects (no models / poses / count) under limited sensing.
Action Composed reactive grasp / transport / place / release primitives; compared blind random + tactile/FT exploration vs RGB-D baseline.
Result Reliable completion with only tactile/force primitives proved robustness; RGB-D added efficiency (fewer attempts, faster cycle) but not feasibility.
2004 – Best Student & Academic Excellence Awards (Technical Eng. in Computer Systems)
Invited Talks
Enabling Real-Time Performance for Approximate Bayesian Computation. CIMAT-INAOE Deep Learning & Data Science Workshop, Guanajuato, Sep 2019.
Robust Scene Understanding via Real-Time Approximate Bayesian Computation. IWSSIP 2020 (Online), Jul 2020.
Conference and journals
1. Felip, J. and Morales, A. (2009). Robust sensor-based grasp primitive for a three-finger robot hand. In Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2009. IROS 2009. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on, pages 1811–1816
2. Laaksonen, J., Felip, J., Morales, A., and Kyrki, V. (May). Embodiment independent manipulation through action abstraction. In Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2010 IEEE International Conference on, pages 2113–2118
3. Chinellato, E., Felip, J., Grzyb, B. J., Morales, A., and del Pobil, A. P. (2011). Hierarchical object recognition inspired by primate brain mechanisms. In Computational Intelligence for Visual Intelligence (CIVI), 2011 IEEE Workshop on, pages 1–8
4. Bohg, J., Johnson-Roberson, M., Leon, B., Felip, J., Gratal, X., Bergstrom, N., Kragic, D., and Morales, A. (2011). Mind the gap - robotic grasping under incomplete observation. In Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2011 IEEE International Conference on, pages 686–693
5. Felip, J., Bernabe, J., and Morales, A. (2012a). Contact-based blind grasping of unknown objects. In 12th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, HUMANOIDS, pages 396–401
6. Felip, J., Laaksonen, J., Morales, A., and Kyrki, V. (2012b). Manipulation primitives: A paradigm for abstraction and execution of grasping and manipulation tasks. Robotics and Autonomous Systems
7. Leon, B., Felip, J., Marti, H., and Morales, A. (2012). Simulation of robot dynamics for grasping and manipulation tasks. In 12th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, HUMANOIDS, pages 291–296
8. del Pobil, A. P., Duran, A. J., Antonelli, M., Felip, J., Morales, A., Prats, M., and Chinellato, E. (2013). Integration of visuomotor learning, cognitive grasping and sensor-based physical interaction in the uji humanoid torso. Designing Intelligent Robots: Reintegrating AI, pp. 6–11
9. Bernabe, J., Felip., J., del Pobil, A. P., and Morales, A. (2013). Contact localization through robot and object motion from point clouds. In 13th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, HUMANOIDS, Atlanta, GA, USA. IEEE
10. Morales, A., Prats, M., and Felip, J. (2013). Sensors and methods for the evaluation of grasping. In Carbone, G., editor, Grasping in Robotics, volume 10 of Mechanisms and Machine Science, pages 77–104. Springer London
11. Felip, J. and Morales, A. (2014). Dual arm sensor-based controller for the cap unscrewing task. In 14th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, HUMANOIDS, Madrid, Spain. IEEE
12. Felip, J., Morales, A., and Asfour, T. (2014). Multi-sensor and prediction fusion for contact detection and localization. In 14th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, HUMANOIDS, Madrid, Spain. IEEE
13. Felip, J., Durán, A. J., Antonelli, M., Morales, A., and del Pobil, A. P. (2015). Tombatossals: A humanoid torso for autonomous sensor-based task execution research. In 15th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, HUMANOIDS, Seoul, South Korea. IEEE
14. Felip, J. (2016). Contact driven robotic manipulation. PhD Thesis
15. Gonzalez-Aguirre, D., Felip, J., and Shahidzadeh, S. (2016). Infinite-Resolution 3D Modeling from a Single Image for Free-Form Revolution Objects. In 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM), pages 253–260. IEEE
16. Felip, J., Gonzalez-Aguirre, D., and Tickoo, O. (2017). Towards Intuitive Rigid-body Physics Through Parameter Search. IEEE-RAS 17th International Conference on Humanoid Robotics (Humanoids), pages 0–7
17. Felip, J., Ahuja, N. A., Gómez-Gutiérrez, D., Tickoo, O., and Mansinghka, V. (2019). Real-time approximate bayesian computation for scene understanding. NeurIPS 2019. Workshop in Perception as generative reasoning: structure, causality, probability
18. Felip, J., Ahuja, N., and Tickoo, O. (2020). Tree pyramidal adaptive importance sampling. https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.08434
19. Felip, J., Gonzalez-Aguirre, D., and Nachman, L. (2022). Intuitive & efficient human-robot collaboration via real-time approximate bayesian inference. In Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2022. IROS 2022. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on. Best paper award finalist
Patents
1. Turek, J. S. et al. (U.S. Patent 20190317739 A1, 2019). Methods and apparatus to automatically generate code for graphical user interfaces
2. Leon, J. F. et al. (U.S. Patent 20190317455 A1, 2019). Methods and apparatus to generate acceptability criteria for autonomous systems plans
3. Alvarez, I. J. et al. (U.S. Patent 20190318244 A1, 2019). Methods and apparatus to provide machine programmed creative support to a user
4. Gonzalez Aguirre, D. I. et al. (U.S. Patent 20190314984 A1, 2019). Automatic robot perception programming by imitation learning
5. Remis, L. C. M. et al. (U.S. Patent 20190317965 A1, 2019). Methods and apparatus to facilitate generation of database queries
6. Felip Leon, J. et al. (U.S. Patent 20200149898 A1, 2020b). System and method for acceleration-based vector field maps
7. Gonzalez Aguirre, D. I. et al. (U.S. Patent 20200143551 A1, 2020c). Technologies for thermal enhanced semantic segmentation of two-dimensional images
8. Gomez Gutierrez, D. et al. (U.S. Patent 20200133281 A1, 2020). Safety system for a vehicle
9. Elli, M. S. et al. (U.S. Patent 20200130570 A1, 2020). Self-adaptive multiresolution digital-plate for multimodal enhanced safety of vehicles
10. Turek, J. et al. (U.S. Patent 20200130711 A1, 2020). Autonomous vehicle system for detecting safety driving model compliance status of another vehicle, and planning accordingly
11. Gutierrez, D. G. et al. (U.S. Patent 20200023842 A1, 2020). Potential collision warning system based on road user intent prediction
12. Perez-Ramirez, J. et al. (U.S. Patent 20200018814 A1, 2020b). Locating radio transmission source by scene reconstruction
13. Alvarez, I. et al. (U.S. Patent 20200326696 A1, 2020b). Technology to handle ambiguity in automated control systems
14. Felip Leon, J. et al. (U.S. Patent 20200327415 A1, 2020a). Neural network verification based on cognitive trajectories
15. Perez-Ramirez, J. et al. (U.S. Patent 20200329386 A1, 2020a). Automated network control systems that adapt network configurations based on the local network environment
16. Zamora Esquivel, J. et al. (U.S. Patent 20200327731 A1, 2020). Artificial imagination engine using 5d information descriptors
17. Gonzalez Aguirre, D. I. et al. (U.S. Patent 20200324409 A1, 2020b). Affordance-aware, multi-resolution, free-form object manipulation planning
18. Oliver, D. et al. (U.S. Patent 20200327802 A1, 2020). Object tracking technology based on cognitive representation of a location in space
19. Guzman, M. et al. (U.S. Patent 20200322528 A1, 2020). Camera orchestration technology to improve the automated identification of individuals
20. Ahuja, N. et al. (U.S. Patent 20200226430 A1, 2020). Devices and methods for accurately identifying objects in a vehicle’s environment
21. Gonzalez Aguirre, D. et al. (U.S. Patent 20200223443 A1, 2020a). Safety system for a vehicle
22. Alvarez, I. et al. (U.S. Patent 20200200869 A1, 2020a). Compensating for a sensor deficiency in a heterogeneous sensor array
23. Alvarez, I. J. et al. (U.S. Patent 20210001884 A1, 2021d). Technology to generalize safe driving experiences for automated vehicle behavior prediction
24. Alvarez, I. J. et al. (U.S. Patent 20210403031 A1, 2021a). Disambiguation of vehicle navigation actions
25. Alvarez, I. J. et al. (U.S. Patent 20210402898 A1, 2021b). Methods and devices for a vehicle
26. Felip Leon, J. et al. (U.S. Patent 20210309264 A1, 2021a). Human-robot collaboration
27. Felip Leon, J. et al. (U.S. Patent 20210299866 A1, 2021b). Robotic manipulation planning based on probabilistic elastoplastic deformation material point method
28. Datta, P. et al. (U.S. Patent 20210279506 A1, 2021). Systems, methods, and devices for head pose determination
29. Turek, J. S. et al. (U.S. Patent 20210150323 A1, 2021). Methods and apparatus to implement a neural network
30. Guim Bernat, F. et al. (U.S. Patent 20210116261 A1, 2021). Systems and methods for vehicle-occupancy-based and user-preference-based smart routing and autonomous volumetric-occupancy measurement
31. Gonzalez Aguirre, D. et al. (U.S. Patent 20210117649 A1, 2021). Systems and methods for privacy-preserving facemask-compliance-level measurement
32. Alvarez, I. J. et al. (U.S. Patent 20210114606 A1, 2021c). Systems and methods for intrusion detection in vehicle systems
33. Campos Macias, L. E. et al. (U.S. Patent 20210110264 A1, 2021). Methods and apparatus to facilitate efficient knowledge sharing among neural networks
34. Felip Leon, J. et al. (U.S. Patent 20220111526 A1, 2022). Localization system and method
35. Elli, M. S. et al. (U.S. Patent 20220114458 A1, 2022). Multimodal automatic mapping of sensing defects to task-specific error measurement
36. Campos Macias, L. et al. (U.S. Patent 20220009439 A1, 2022). Enhanced occupant collision safety system
37. Leon, J. F. et al. (U.S. Patent 20220274251 A1, 2022). Apparatus and methods for industrial robot code recommendation
38. Oboril, F. et al. (U.S. Patent 20220242452 A1, 2022). Vehicle occupant monitoring
39. Galeev, M. T. et al. (U.S. Patent 20220200920 A1, 2022). Dynamic adaptation of time-aware communications in time-sensitive systems
40. Gomez Gutierrez, D. et al. (U.S. Patent 20240217103 A1, 2024). Trajectory planning systems and methods
41. Gonzalez Aguirre, D. et al. (U.S. Patent 20240112369 A1, 2024a). Human-robot interactive workspace
42. Gonzalez Aguirre, D. et al. (U.S. Patent 20240025042 A1, 2024b). Neuro-capability plug-ins for robot task planning
43. Macias, L. C. et al. (U.S. Patent 20230259665 A1, 2023). Occupancy mapping based on geometric entities with hierarchical relationships
44. Campos Macias, L. E. et al. (U.S. Patent 20230048578 A1, 2023). Real-time predictor of human movement in shared workspaces
45. Aguirre, D. G. et al. (U.S. Patent 20240416510 A1, 2024). Object-agnostic fast grasping-points estimation via geometric-algebra
46. Felip Leon, J. et al. (U.S. Patent 20240326254 A1, 2024). Camera and end-effector planning for visual servoing
47. Gonzalez Aguirre, D. I. et al. (U.S. Patent 20240314290 A1, 2024c). Methods and apparatus to model volumetric representations
48. Turek, J. et al. (U.S. Patent 20240293931 A1, 2024). Human-collaborative robot ergonomic interaction system
49. De La Guardia Gonzalez, R. et al. (U.S. Patent 20250060729 A1, 2025). Hierarchical polytope workspace mapping for human-robot collaboration
50. Felip Leon, J. et al. (U.S. Patent 20250001605 A1, 2025b). Probabilistic autocomplete system for robot programming
51. Gonzalez Aguirre, D. et al. (U.S. Patent 20250004820 A1, 2025a). Edge-based end device control using asynchronous adaptive motion primitives
52. Turek, J. S. et al. (U.S. Patent 20250001597 A1, 2025b). Collaborative human-robot error correction and facilitation
53. Felix Rendon, J. et al. (U.S. Patent 20250128560 A1, 2025). Transport system with self-lifting wheel units for floor obstacle traversal
54. Zamora Esquivel, J. et al. (U.S. Patent 20250121493 A1, 2025). Differential kinematics control using conformal geometric entity modeling
55. Gonzalez Aguirre, D. et al. (U.S. Patent 20250135663 A1, 2025c). Illumination control in robotic end effector manipulation
56. Gonzalez Aguirre, D. et al. (U.S. Patent 20250135655 A1, 2025b). Human-robot interface system with bidirectional haptic feedback
57. Felip Leon, J. et al. (U.S. Patent 20250187181 A1, 2025a). Energy efficient robotic arm
58. Ruiz Fernandez, L. et al. (U.S. Patent 20250202788 A1, 2025). Controller parameter adaptation for non-differentiable communication conditions
59. Felip Leon, J. et al. (U.S. Patent 20250214788 A1, 2025c). Smart sensing for pallet loading and unloading
60. Turek, J. S. et al. (U.S. Patent 20250238664 A1, 2025a). Adaptation of quantization of neural network models during inference
