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Daniel Totolici丹阳

AI Engineer & Logistics Automation Intern @ John Deere — Madrid, ES

I build multi-agent systems and turn them into production ready applications. Now moving toward agents that act in the physical world.

Embodied AIAgent safetyIntelligent Manufacturing

Research

Current

BSc thesis, UC3M — in progress, 2026

Comparative adversarial evaluation of sandboxed agentic runtimes

A reproducible, runtime-agnostic harness runs one adversarial attack catalog against the same agent under three configurations — unprotected baseline, OpenShell for kernel-level isolation, and Microsoft AGT for application-level governance — across twelve scenarios spanning prompt injection, malicious MCP servers, tool-chaining bypass, and exfiltration.

The result is a head-to-head measurement of attack success rate, detection coverage, and utility cost: where kernel-level isolation and application-level governance each stop, miss, or complement the other.

Where I want to work next

Embodied AI: from simulation to hardware

Robot policies that survive contact with the world. Two problems define the field, and the interesting work is happening in simulation.

Open problems

The sim-to-real gap

Visual, geometric, and physical differences between a simulator and reality mean a policy that performs on screen fails on a physical robot.

The cost of real data

Real-world demonstrations demand expensive hardware, experienced operators, and time that does not scale.

Areas I want to work in

Synthetic data and world models

Interactive simulators — diffusion and consistency based — that learn from real interaction to generate thousands of synthetic demonstrations. Imitation policies trained on them approach the performance of fully real data.

Real-to-sim reconstruction

Gaussian splatting and neural rendering to replicate a physical scene exactly, so a policy can practise on the hard cases — cables, containers, cluttered piles — before touching hardware.

Scalable evaluation

Standardised sim-eval platforms in the spirit of SIMPLER and RoboLab, measuring reproducibly whether a generalist control policy is robust to lighting shifts, ambiguous instructions, and variation in robot design.

Zero-shot transfer

Training navigation and manipulation entirely in simulation on platforms like NVIDIA Isaac Lab, so humanoids and autonomous agents operate in physical environments they have never seen.

About

Engineering, research, and a business that funds both.

I am an AI engineer based in Madrid currently finishing a BSc in Data Science and Engineering at UC3M on a full excellence scholarship, with an exchange in mathematics at the University of Waterloo. I am interested in joining a high tech lab in China while studying a MS or PhD in AI.

As co-founder and CTO of Cibelio I built a conversational voice platform for real estate agencies: a real-time pipeline combining speech recognition, LLM reasoning, and speech synthesis, with an agentic layer for call handling, lead qualification, and scheduling, and human escalation where confidence drops. I owned architecture, deployment, and reliability.

I also founded Liberty Sourcing, a China sourcing agency that has closed projects totalling over 10,000 units. It funds my research time and gives me direct access to manufacturing, which matters for the hardware end of embodied systems. Currently I am a logistics automation intern at John Deere, working on automation where I am optimizing warehouse operations with automation tools.

Stack

LanguagesPython, C++, SQL
AgentsLangGraph, MCP, Claude Agent SDK
Learning & evaluationPyTorch, Garak, Rego, Langfuse
Real-timeDeepgram, ElevenLabs, Streaming audio
RuntimeDocker, Podman, FastAPI, pgvector

Now

John Deere | 2026-2027
Logistics automation intern
Cibelio | 2025-Present
Co-founder & CTO, real-time voice AI
Liberty Sourcing | 2026-Present
Founder of sourcing agency in China

Education

UC3M, Madrid | 2022-2026
BSc Data Science & Engineering, GPA 3.5
Alumni excellence scholarship, full tuition. Machine learning, deep learning, forecasting, cloud
University of Waterloo, Canada | 2025
Exchange, Mathematics
Neural networks, advanced machine learning, forecasting
Beijing University, Beijing | 2026
Chinese language summer school
Eight-week intensive program
EOI, Madrid | 2024
Course on Entrepreneurship and Innovation
80 hours, Escuela de Organización Industrial