Who am I?
I am a scientific researcher in robotics. My current focus is on the perception and manipulation of deformable objects such as garments. My work is situated at the intersection between differentiable geometry and deep learning.
I have obtained my PhD from the University of Genoa and the Italian Institute of Technology in 2025 under the supervision of Prof. Darwin Caldwell and Dr. Fei Chen.
If your are interested in my work, feel free to contact me via LinkedIn.
🔥 News
- 2026.02: 🎉🎉 Published a pre-print on arxiv🔗
📝 Publications
Disentangling perception and reasoning for improving data efficiency in learning cloth manipulation without demonstrations, Donatien Delehelle, Fei Chen, Darwin G. Caldwell, arxiv 2026
Advanced garment modeling for object-centric assistive dressing policies, Donatien Delehelle, Thesis
Learning Robot Dynamic Cloth Manipulation Based on Differentiable Dynamics Optimization and Motion Transfer, Hengyi Sim, Junjia Liu, Donatien Delehelle, Xingyu Wu, Darwin G. Caldwell, Fei Chen, TETCI 2026
MiXR-Intent: Intention Prediction for Immersive Remote Encountered-Type Haptics, Natnael Berhanu Takele, Donatien Delehelle, Kim Yaesol, Sara Anastasi, Nikhil Deshpande, Jesus Ortiz, Darwin G. Caldwell, Carmine Tommaso Recchiuto, Yonas Tefera, IEEE conference on Teleoperation 2025
From Fields to Splats: A Cross-Domain Survey of Real-Time Neural Scene Representations, Javed Ahmad, Penggang Gao, Donatien Delehelle, Mennuti Canio, Nikhil Deshpande, Jesús Ortiz, Darwin G. Caldwell, Yonas Teodros Tefera, arxiv 2025
Donatien Delehelle, Darwin G. Caldwell, Fei Chen
🎓 Academic Supervision & Teaching
- 2024–2025 — MSc Project Co-supervisor (1 MSc these), Italian Institute of Technology
- Topics: teleopertion, intent prediction, haptics
- 2016–2019 — Private Tutor (Mathematics, Physics)
💻 Open-Source Contributions & Personal Projects
- Rofunc: The full process python package for robot learning from demonstration and robot manipulation
💬 Conference Abstracts & Invited Talks
MiXR-Interact: Mixed Reality Interaction Dataset for Gaze, Hand, and Body, Natnael Berhanu Takele, Donatien Delehelle, Yaesol Kim, Yonas Teodros Tefera, Nikhil Deshpande, Darwin G Caldwell, Jesus Ortiz, Carmine Tommaso Recchiuto, HRI 2025 Workshop VAM
Assistive Robotic System for Dressing through Learning by Demonstration, Donatien Delehelle,Fei Chen,Darwin G. Caldwell, IROS 2022 Workshop SCIAR
📖 Education
- 2025, PhD in Robotics, University of Genoa and Italian Institute of Technology
- 2020, MSc in Data Science, Centrale Lyon