- Jožef Stefan Golden Emblem Award for Ph.D. dissertation for 2012
- ICRA 2015 Best Reviewer Award
- RAAD 2024 Best Application paper FINALIST award
- 2014 RAAD Best Scientific Paper Award
- 2010 RAAD Best Scientific Paper Award
- ICRA 2024 – Cloth Competition, ranked 2nd
- 1st euROBIN coopetition, won the Robotic manufacturing for a circular economy League
Research Experience
- Postdoctoral Researcher at Biorobotics Laboratory, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, during 2012–13
- Part of Ph.D. research at Biorobotics Laboratory, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, during 2007–08
- Visiting researcher at ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories in the summers of 2009 and 2014
Education
Received the Diploma degree in electrical engineering in 2004, and a Ph.D. degree in robotics from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, in 2009.
Background
A robotics researcher and head of the Humanoid and Cognitive Robotics Lab. Research interests focus on robot handling of deformable objects and robot learning, applicable for humanoid and industrial robotics.
Miscellany
No information provided about personal interests or hobbies.