Scholar
Abhinav Valada
Google Scholar ID: LcARjz0AAAAJ
Professor & Director of Robot Learning Lab, University of Freiburg
Citations & Impact
Citations
4,988
H-index
37
i10-index
73
Publications
20
Co-authors
17
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Published over 130 peer-reviewed conference papers, journal papers, and book chapters. Received numerous awards including the IEEE RAS Early Career Award, IROS Toshio Fukuda Young Professional Award, NVIDIA Research Award, AutoSens Most Novel Research Award, and many paper awards.
Research Experience
- Assistant Professor (W1) from 2020 to 2023; Co-founder and Director of Operations at Platypus LLC from 2013 to 2015; Worked at the National Robotics Engineering Center and Field Robotics Center of Carnegie Mellon University from 2011 to 2014.
Education
- PhD (summa cum laude) from the University of Freiburg in 2019, supervised by Prof. Wolfram Burgard; MS in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University in 2013; BTech. in Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering from VIT University in 2010.
Background
- Research interests lie at the intersection of robotics, machine learning, and computer vision, addressing fundamental problems in perception, state estimation, and decision making to enable robots to operate reliably in complex and diverse open-world settings. The overall goal is to develop scalable lifelong robot learning systems that continuously learn multiple tasks from what they perceive and experience by interacting with the real world.
Miscellany
- Senior Member of IEEE, ELLIS Society Scholar, Chair of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Technical Committee on Robot Learning.
