I am currently leading the software team at Magazino, a Munich-based startup that develops robotic solutions for intralogistics.

From January 2013 to December 2014 I was a post-doc in the Intelligent Autonomous Systems group at the Institute for Artificial Intelligence. Before that, I worked on the Ubiquitous Network Robot project at the ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories in Kyoto, Japan.

In November 2011, I obtained my PhD in Computer Science from TUM for my dissertation entitled Knowledge Processing for Autonomous Robots. From February to May 2009, I was a Visiting Scholar in the Human Sensing Lab at Carnegie Mellon University where I worked with Fernando De la Torre on models of human everyday activities. Previously, I studied Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at RWTH Aachen, Germany and Robotics and Embedded Systems at ENSTA in Paris, France. I spent a year as an intern at Accenture Technology Labs in Sophia Antipolis, France, working on visual localization and mapping.

• I was featured in an article on transfer learning in robotics in Businessweek in July 2014.
• I'll be one of the speakers at the seminar on 3D-Umgebungserfassung organized by Fraunhofer IPA.
• Our work on the RoboHow project was featured on Spiegel Online.
• Three of my papers have been accepted to IROS 2013.
• I'm co-organizing the workshop on "AI-based robotics" at IROS 2013 in Tokyo in November.
• The IEEE member newspaper “The Institute” featured our work about robots for improving the quality of life.
• Our paper on the RoboEarth language got invited to the IJCAI special track on "Best papers from sister conferences".
• The RoboHow project I'm managing received quite some media coverage lately, including some TV, radio and newspaper interviews.
• From July to November 2012, I'll be a post-doc in the ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories in Kyoto, Japan, working on the Ubiquitous Network Robot project.
• My paper The RoboEarth language: Representing and Exchanging Knowledge about Actions, Objects, and Environments has won the Best Cognitive Robotics Paper Award at ICRA 2012.
• I have co-organized the IROS 2011 Workshop: Knowledge Representation for Autonomous Robots. The workshop program and proceedings can be found here.
• A tutorial on the KnowRob knowledge base I gave at the CoTeSys-ROS Fall School in November 2010.
• The Robots podcast has interviewed me about my views on robots as personal assistants.
• Video of a CMU VASC seminar I gave together with Jan Bandouch in 2009.