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Education
- 2014: Dr. rer. nat. in Computer Science, University of Bonn
- 2007: Diploma (equiv. M.Sc.) in Computer Science, University of Freiburg
Academic Positions
- 2023–now: University Professor (tenured), Intelligent Perception in Technical Systems Group, University of Augsburg, Germany
- 2018–2024: Research Group Leader, Independent Cyber Valley/Max Planck Research Group on Embodied Vision, MPI for Intelligent Systems, Tuebingen
- 2017–2018: Visiting Professor, Chair for Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence, TU Munich
- 2015–2017: Postdoctoral Researcher, Computer Vision Group, RWTH Aachen University
- 2014–2015: Postdoctoral Researcher, Chair for Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, TU Munich
- 2008–2014: Research Associate, Chair for Autonomous Intelligent Systems, University of Bonn
- 2007–2008: Research Associate, Learning Humanoid Robots Group, University of Freiburg
Awards
- Outstanding Associate Editor, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2024
- Best Student Paper Award, British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2022
- Among Best Reviewers (Top 10%), International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2021
- Best Paper Honorable Mention, German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR) 2020
- Georges Giralt PhD Award 2015 by euRobotics aisbl for best PhD thesis in European Robotics
- RoboCup @Home (service robots): 1. Place: 2011, 2012, 2013; 2. Place: 2010; 3. Place: 2009
- RoboCup Humanoid Soccer (KidSize): 1. Place: 2007, 2008; 2. Place: 2005, 2006
- Best Paper Award, RoboCup Symposium, 2011
- Finalist of KUKA Service Robotics Best Paper Award, IEEE Int. Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2011
Academic Committees
- 2025–now: Spokesperson of thematic cluster on “Rigorous Perception” of Robotics Institute Germany (RIG)
- 2024–now: Board of Center for Advanced Analytics and Predictive Sciences (CAAPS), University of Augsburg
- 2018–2024: Associated member of the Max Planck ETH Center for Learning Systems (https://learning-systems.org/)
- 2018–2024: Faculty member of the International Max Planck Research School on Intelligent Systems (https://imprs.is.mpg.de/)
Academic Services
- 2025–2026: Associate Editor, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
- 2020–2023,2025: Associate Editor, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
- 2023–2024: Area Chair, Conference on Robot Learning
- 2020: Program Co-Chair, International Symposium on Vision, Modeling and Visualization (VMV)
- 2019, 2021, 2022, 2024: Robot Vision Special Track Chair, German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR)
- 2018: Demo Chair, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
- 2017: Area Chair, International Conference on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Geomatics (UAV-g)
- 2015–2016: Associate Editor, International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
- I reviewed for several conferences and journals
- Conferences: ICCV, ECCV, CVPR, SIGGRAPH, 3DV, ISMAR, GCPR, SIGGRAPH Asia, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, IJCAI, ECAI, RSS, ICRA, IROS, ECMR, Humanoids
- Journals: TPAMI, JFR, RAM, TRO, IJCV, RA-L, Advanced Robotics, TASE, RAS, TIP, JINT, ARSO, MVAP, SMC, KI Zeitschrift
Other Committees:
- 2015: Advisory Committee of the 1st Amazon Picking Challenge 2015
- 2013–2014: Technical Committee of RoboCup@Home League
