Alberto Maria Metelli

Research

Research interests

Learning from Human Feedback

Learning from human preferences, demonstrations, and other feedback.

Efficient Sample Use and Reuse

Convergence of actor-only and actor–critic methods with efficient data reuse.

Stability in Reinforcement Learning

Bridging control theory and RL through stability and mixing properties.

Structured Sequential Decision-Making

Exploiting structure in multi-armed bandits and Markov decision processes.

Research projects

2025 – 2028

HUmLrn

Unified Learning from Diverse Human Feedback

MUR · FIS 2 Starting Grant · FIS-2023-02598

2023 – 2028

iBeCHANGE

Addressing psychosocial and lifestyle risk factors for primary cancer prevention

European Union · Horizon Europe RIA · Grant 101136840

2023 – 2027

AI4REALNET

AI for REAL-world NETwork operation

European Union · Horizon Europe · Grant 101119527

2023 – 2026

FAIR

Future Artificial Intelligence Research, Spoke 4: Adaptive AI

MUR / NextGenerationEU · PNRR Extended Partnership · PE00000013

2021 – 2025

CLINT

Climate Intelligence: extreme events detection, attribution, and adaptation

European Union · Horizon 2020 · Grant 101003876

Software and datasets

Gym4ReaL ↗

Open-source Gymnasium suite for benchmarking reinforcement-learning algorithms on realistic environments.

Python · Apache-2.0

AReS ↗

Open-source patient simulator for testing automated control strategies for total intravenous anesthesia.

Python & MATLAB · MIT

ARLO ↗

Python library and extensible framework for automated reinforcement learning pipelines.

Python · MIT

Selected recognitions

2026
ELLIS ScholarOutstanding junior scientists recognition
2024
Two spotlight papers at ICMLTop 3.5% of submissions
2023
Oral presentation at ICMLTop 2.39% of submissions
2023
Notable paper at AISTATSTop 1.9% of submissions
2021
Spotlight presentation at NeurIPSTop 2.9% of submissions
2021
Premio NeoDottori di Ricerca Marco CadoliAIxIA · Best Italian Ph.D. thesis in AI
2018
Oral presentation at NeurIPSTop 0.62% of submissions

Technology transfer

I am co-founder of ML cube S.r.l., a Politecnico di Milano spin-off, part of Kayrhos Group, providing cutting-edge solutions for machine learning systems and life-cycle-management optimization.