Tobia Marcucci is a postdoctoral scientist at Amazon Robotics and an Assistant Professor in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). He is also affiliated with the UCSB Center for Control, Dynamical Systems, and Computation (CCDC). He received a PhD in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, under the supervision of Russ Tedrake and Pablo Parrilo. During his PhD, he also spent one year at Stanford University visiting Stephen Boyd’s group. He received a Bachelor’s degree 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.