Educational Background |
07.2007-12.2010 | Ph.D. Student |
| supervised by Jan Peters |
| Dept. Empirical Inference, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, 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 |
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Research Positions |
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 |
04.2011-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 |
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 |
2008 | Finalist for Conference Best Paper Award |
| IEEE/RSJ Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). |
2004-2005 | Scholarship from Landesstiftung Baden-Württemberg. |
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Paper Reviewing |
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. |
References are available upon request. |