| Educational Background |
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| 07.2007-12.2010 | Ph.D. Student |
| | supervised by Jan Peters |
| | Dept. Empirical Inference, Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen, Germany |
| 11.2006-05.2007 | Diplomarbeit (Master's thesis) |
| | Bosch Corporate Research, Schwieberdingen, Germany |
| | Thesis Title: Fault diagnosis of fully variable valve train using knock sensor signal |
| 03.2006-08.2006 | Studienarbeit (Research thesis) |
| | Daimler AG Group Research, Stuttgart, Germany |
| | Thesis Title: Estimation of vehicle loading state |
| 07.2005-12.2005 | Studienarbeit (Research thesis) |
| | Institute for Numerical Mechanics, University Stuttgart, Germany |
| | Thesis Title: Modeling the impact of planar deformable bodies using a linear complementarity formulation |
| 10.2001-07.2007 | Studies in Automation Engineering |
| | University of Stuttgart, Germany |
| 07.2004-08.2005 | Studies in Control Engineering |
| | National University of Singapore, Singapore |
| 2000 | Abitur |
| | Moll-Gymnasium Mannheim, Germany |
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| Research Positions |
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| 06.2008-07.2008 | Visiting Researcher |
| | Computational Learning and Motor Control Lab (Head: Stefan Schaal), University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA |
| 10.2005-07.2006 | Student Researcher |
| | Bosch Corporate Research, Schwieberdingen, Germany |
| 05.2002-06.2004 | Student Researcher |
| | Zentrum für Fertigungstechnik Stuttgart, University Stuttgart, Germany |
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| Industrial Experience |
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| 03.2011-now | Researcher at Robert Bosch gmbh |
| | Schwieberdingen, Germany |
| 09.2006-11.2006 | Internship at Robert Bosch gmbh |
| | Stuttgart, Germany |
| 02.2002-04.2002 | Internship at Robert Bosch gmbh |
| | Stuttgart, Germany |
| 08.2001-10.2001 | Internship at Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG |
| | Waldorf-Heidelberg, Germany |
| 09.2000-08.2001 | Civil Service at Deutsche Stiftung für Internationale Entwicklung |
| | Mannheim, Germany |
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| Oral Presentations and Workshop Organization |
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| 04.2008 | Learning Inverse Dynamics for Control |
| | at the European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN). |
| 06.2008 | Computed Torque Control using Non-parametric Regression Models |
| | at the American Control Conference (ACC). |
| 08.2008 | Learning Inverse Dynamics with Local Gaussian Process Regression |
| | at the Symposium on Learning and Adaptive Behaviour in Robotic Systems. |
| 10.2008 | Local Gaussian Processes Regression for Real-time Model-based Robot Control |
| | at IEEE/RSJ Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). |
| 10.2009 | Sparse Online Model Learning for Robot Control with Support Vector Regression |
| | at IEEE/RSJ Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). |
| 12.2009 | Workshop Probabilistic Approaches for Robotics and Control. |
| | at Neural Information Processing Systems 2009 (NIPS). |
| 05.2010 | Using Model Knowledge for Learning Inverse Dynamics |
| | at IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). |
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| Awards and Honors |
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| 2008 | Finalist for Conference Best Paper Award |
| | IEEE/RSJ Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) |
| 2004-2005 | Scholarship from Landesstiftung Baden-Württemberg |
| 2007-2011 | Ph.D.-Scholarship from the Max-Planck Society |
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| Paper Reviewing |
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| 2010 | Transactions on Evolutionary Computation |
| | International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) |
| | Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) |
| | Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) |
| | Journal of Systems and Control Engineering |
| | International Conference on Robotic Systems (IROS) |
| 2009 | International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) |
| | Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) |
| | Autonomous Robots Journal |
| | Neural Computation |
| | Journal of Systems and Control Engineering |
| 2008 | International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) |
| | Human Movement Science |
| | International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP) |
| | Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) |
| | International Conference on Robotic Systems (IROS) |
| | International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) |
| | International Conference on Cognitive Systems (COGSYS) |
| | Journal of Systems and Control Engineering |
| | International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR) |
| 2007 | Systems, Man and Cybernetics - Part B |
| | Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) |
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| References, etc. |
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| References are available upon request. |
