Agon Serifi

Agon Serifi is an Associate Research Scientist with the Disney Research Robotics team, where his work focuses on deep reinforcement learning and human motion to develop control methods enabling robots to generalize and exhibit lifelike behaviors. He received his PhD in Computer Science in 2025 from ETH Zurich's Computer Graphics Laboratory under Prof. Markus Gross and Dr. Moritz Bächer. He is best known as the primary author of VMP (Versatile Motion Priors) for robustly tracking motion on physical characters and the Robot Motion Diffusion Model for motion generation in robotic characters.