- 'Dynamic Update-to-Data Ratio: Minimizing World Model Overfitting', International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2023
- 'Catch Me If You Hear Me: Audio-Visual Navigation in Complex Unmapped Environments with Moving Sounds', Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) 8(2), 2023
- 'Adaptively Calibrated Critic Estimates for Deep Reinforcement Learning', Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) 8(2), 2023
- 'N2M2:Learning Navigation for Arbitrary Mobile Manipulation Motions in Unseen and Dynamic Environments', arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.08737, 2022
Research Experience
- May 2022 to present: Substitute Professor and Commissary Head of the Autonomous Intelligent Systems Group, University of Freiburg
- March 2020 to April 2022: Senior Researcher at the Autonomous Intelligent Systems and Robotic Learning Groups, University of Freiburg
- May 2013 to March 2014: Scientific Researcher, Fraunhofer Institute of Solar Energy Systems
Education
- PhD in Computer Science, April 2014 to March 2019, University of Freiburg, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Wolfram Burgard
- Diploma in Physics (minor in Computer Science), October 2007 to April 2013, University of Freiburg
Background
Research interests include reinforcement learning, learning from demonstration, robot manipulation, and dynamical systems.