Current Position
Senior Researcher & Group Leader: Learning for Control
Topic: Autonomous Learning for Control and Robotics

Educational and Research Background
2011–nowGroup Leader
 Department of Computer Science, TU Darmstadt, Germany
2010–2011Post-Doc
 supervised by Prof. Dr. Dieter Fox
 Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Univserity of Washington, WA, USA
2006–2009Ph.D. Student
 supervised by Dr. Carl Edward Rasmussen
 Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK
 Thesis Title: Efficient Reinforcement Learning using Gaussian Processes
2006Master's thesis
 supervised by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Uwe D. Hanebeck
 Department of Computer Science, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
 Thesis Title: An Online-Computation Approach to Optimal Finite-Horizon State-Feedback Control of Nonlinear Stochastic Systems
2000–2006M.Sc. in Computer Science
 University of Karlsruhe, Germany
 
Paper Reviewing
2013ADPRL, AURO, ICRA, IJCAI, IROS, MLJ, NIPS, PAMI
2012ACML, AISTATS, ECML, EWRL, HUMANOIDS, ICML, ICPRAM, ICRA, IJRR, NIPS, R:SS, Springer books
2011Computers and Mathematics with Applications Journal, Machine Learning Journal, CDC, ICML, ICRA, IROS, NIPS, R:SS
2010Int. Journal on Robotics Research (IJRR), AAAI, ACC, AISTATS, ICRA, NIPS, R:SS
2009Autonomous Robots Journal, SCI Journal, CDC, ICML, ICRA
2008NIPS, RO-MAN
2007Adaptive Behavior Journal, IEE Electronic Letters Journal, IPSN
 
References, etc.
References are available upon request.