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Education
- PhD research in context-aware robotic manipulation actions, University of Bremen
- M.Sc. Artificial Intelligence, University of Bremen, 2019-2021
- B.Sc. Computer Science, University of Bremen, 2017-2019
Work experience
- Research Staff, 2021-present
- Artificial Intelligence Group, University of Bremen
- Research focus: generalized, context-aware robot actions for autonomous household tasks.
- Developed autonomous robot systems and AI-based processes for household robotics.
- Contributed to EASE Phase 3, including a live robotics demonstration for external reviewers.
- Designed the first Virtual Research Building prototype and coordinated multiple lab concepts.
- Prepared research data and authored scientific publications.
- Student Assistant, 2017-2021
- Institute for Artificial Intelligence, University of Bremen
- Worked on robotic perception, visualization, sensor integration, Unreal Engine, 3D data, and Kalman and particle filters.
- Supported behavior model and system architecture design.
Skills
- AI, robotics, autonomous robot control, and human-robot interaction
- Context-aware robot manipulation, action planning, and task learning
- Scene graphs, domain knowledge, symbolic reasoning, and action cores
- Knowledge representation, model validation, statistics, and algorithm optimization
- Python, Lisp, Java, C/C++, C#, Haskell, and Prolog
- Household robotics and RoboCup@Home
Leadership and international experience
- RoboCup@Home Technical and Organizing Committee Chair, 2024-2025
- RoboCup@Home committee work and competition organization, 2022-2025
- Research stay at the University of Miami, Department of Computer Science, 2025
- Fall School Michigan/Bremen: participation, course leadership, tutorial development, and co-organization, 2022-2024
Publications
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Talks
March 01, 2014
Conference proceedings talk at Testing Institute of America 2014 Annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA
February 01, 2014
Talk at London School of Testing, London, UK
March 01, 2013
Tutorial at UC-Berkeley Institute for Testing Science, Berkeley CA, USA
March 01, 2012
Talk at UC San Francisco, Department of Testing, San Francisco, California
Teaching
- Co-supervisor for master project Suturo (WS20/21, SS21, WS22/23, WS24/25)
- Co-supervisor for bachelor project Suturo (WS19/20, SS20, WS21/22, WS23/24)
- Co-lecturer and co-tutor for KI-basierte Robotersteuerung (SS21, SS23, SS25)
- Co-lecturer and co-tutor for Robot Programming with Lisp (WS21/22)
Supervised theses
Selected supervised theses:
- Master’s Thesis of Phillip Kehr, “Task Planning and Execution of Multi-Robot Systems” (2025)
- Bachelor’s Thesis of Mohammad Aswad, “Towards Robust Robot Tasks: A Focus on Transport and Pouring Failure Handling” (2024)
- Master Thesis of Sorin Arion and Naser Azizi, “A Knowledge Base with which You Can Parameterize Robot Plans for Multiple Mixing Actions” (2024)
- Bachelor’s Thesis of Luca Krohm, “Exploring Underdetermined Action Descriptions for Bottle Opening by Household Robots” (2023)
Projects and service
- EASE DFG CRC
- RoboCup@Home technical committee / participant
Languages
- German
- English
- Korean
- Spanish