IEEE RAS Young Reviewers Program (YRP) Virtual Event - Join us!

Tuesday, February 17th, 2026, 5:00 - 6:00 pm (GMT+1)

• Have you ever received shallow or poorly written reviews for your papers?
• Have you ever wondered whether - and to what extent - AI tools can be used responsibly in the peer-review process?
• Do you feel fully confident in the conference or journal's review policies, including double-anonymous reviewing?

Agenda

This event took place on Tuesday, February 17th, 2026, and was fully recorded.

Event recording

Watch the recording on YouTube

Slides

• YRP event introduction
• YRP Apllications System
• AI and double-anonymous
• How to Review

Organizers

Marta Lorenzini, Senior Technician

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy

e-mail: marta.lorenzini@iit.it

Marta Lorenzini is a Senior Technician at the Human-Robot Interfaces and Physical Interaction lab at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT). She received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in the Department of Electronics, Information, and Bioengineering from Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy, in 2014, 2016, and 2020, respectively. She was involved in the EU-FP7 STREP ICT CoDyCo and in the Horizon-2020 project SOPHIA. She is currently involved in the ERC project ErgoLean, the National Institute for Insurance against Accidents at Work (INAIL) Bando Ricerche in Collaborazione (BRiC) 2022 project LABORIUS, the INAIL VIVA project, and is also active in a technology transfer initiative with several industrial partners, the JOiiNT lab at Kilometro Rosso Innovation District. She was the winner of the Solution Award 2019 (Premio Innovazione Robotica at MECSPE2019), the KUKA Innovation Award 2018, and the IEEE Italy Section 2021 Ph.D. Thesis Award by ABB - New Challenges for Energy and Industry. She is currently the chair of the IEEE RAS Young Reviewers Program. Her research interests include human ergonomics estimation and assessment, assistive robotics, physical human-robot interaction, and feedback interfaces.

Marco Morales Aguirre, Associate Professor

Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, México, and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA

e-mail: moralesa@illinois.edu

Marco Morales Aguirre is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) and a Teaching Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He has also been a Visiting Professor at Texas A&M University and a Lecturer at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Texas A&M University, a M.S. in Electrical Engineering and a B.S. in Computer Engineering from UNAM. He is a member of the National System of Researchers of Mexico. His main research interests are in motion planning and control for autonomous robots, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and computational geometry.

Marta Lagomarsino, Post Doc

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy

e-mail: marta.lagomarsino@iit.it

Marta Lagomarsino is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Human-Robot Interfaces and Interaction (HRII) Laboratory of Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia. She completed her PhD in 2023, obtaining the diploma cum Laude from the Electronic, Information and Bioengineering Department of Politecnico di Milano in collaboration with the HRII lab. She spent a semester at the University of Twente (Enschede, Netherlands), where she developed her Master's thesis within the Horizon-2020 project MURAB. She received her Master's Degree in Robotics Engineering in 2020 and her Bachelor's Degree in Biomedical Engineering in 2018, both with honours from the University of Genoa. Her work has been recognised with several awards, including Most Promising Researcher in Robotics and AI (RomeCup2023), the 2026 IEEE CIS TCDS Outstanding Paper Award, the 2025 IEEE RAS Italian Chapter Young Author Best Paper Award, and the AI and Robotics mention of the Solution Award 2025 (MECSPE2025). She has contributed to the Horizon-2020 project SOPHIA and the ERC project Ergo-Lean, and is involved in the Horizon Europe project TORNADO, the National INAIL project VIVA, INAIL BRIC grants, and technology transfer initiatives with industrial partners. She is currently an Associate Editor for IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters and co-chair of the IEEE RAS Young Reviewer Program. Her research interests include human ergonomics estimation and assessment, socio-physical human-robot interaction, and mutual human-robot adaptation.​​​

Paolo Robuffo Giordano, Senior Scientist

CNRS, IRISA, France

e-mail: paolo.robuffo_giordano@irisa.fr

Paolo Robuffo Giordano is a CNRS senior research scientist head of the Rainbow group at IRISA/Inria, Rennes, France. He holds a PhD degree in Systems Engineering obtained in 2008 at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. From January 2007 to July 2007 and from November 2007 to October 2008, he was a research scientist at the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany, and from October 2008 to November 2012 he was a senior research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics and scientific leader of the group “Human-Robot Interaction”. His scientific interests include motion control for mobile robots and mobile manipulators, visual control of robots, active sensing, bilateral teleoperation, shared control, multi-robot estimation and control, aerial robotics.