Delivered tutorial 'Probabilistic Robotics 2.0: Uncertainty in Deep Neural Networks' at Advances in Robotics Conference 2025
Demonstrated new vision system for TORO at Automatica 2025
Lead organizer of ICRA 2024 workshop 'Back to the Future: Robot Learning Going Probabilistic'
SPIRIT work featured on IEEE Video Friday (08/2023)
Finalist for KUKA Innovation Award 2023
RA-L 2023 paper highlighted by Helmholtz AI news-feed
Co-organized IROS 2022 workshop 'Probabilistic Robotics in the Age of Deep Learning'
Invited talks and session chairing at major conferences including IROS and ICRA
Research Experience
Research Scientist at DLR’s Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics since 11/2017
Completed a ~6-month research visit at KIT’s High Performance Humanoid Technologies (H2T) Lab (ended 04/2024)
Developed and demonstrated a novel vision system for DLR’s humanoid robot TORO using active learning for semantic SLAM (Automatica 2025)
Applied AI-based solutions to traditional textile manufacturing with collaborative robots for manipulation of linear deformable objects (Hannover Messe 2024)
Active research in aerial manipulation, humanoid robotics, and probabilistic robotics