Tobia Marcucci is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), where he is also affiliated with the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Center for Control, Dynamical Systems, and Computation (CCDC). He is also an Amazon Scholar and was previously a Postdoctoral Scientist at Amazon Robotics. He received a PhD in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where his doctoral dissertation was awarded the 2025 George M. Sprowls Thesis Award in Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making. During his PhD, he spent one year as a visiting researcher at Stanford University. He holds a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree (cum laude) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pisa. His research lies at the intersection of convex and combinatorial optimization, with applications to robotics, motion planning, and optimal control.