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Academic Achievements
Paper 'Instance segmentation pipeline for etch pit detection and prismatic slip characterization on silicon carbide substrates' accepted by Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (Sep 2025)
Paper 'Learning Robust Representations for Visual Reinforcement Learning via Task-Relevant Mask Sampling' accepted by Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR) (Aug 2025)
Paper 'Foot Placement Prediction in Real-Time Using Probabilistic Movement Primitives' accepted at Humanoids 2025 (Jul 2025)
Paper 'Sparsifying instance segmentation models for efficient vision-based industrial recycling' accepted at ECML 2025 (Jul 2025)
MINEView project granted funding by FFG for autonomous mining systems (Jul 2025)
Joint grant awarded to establish an Innovation Lab for automation, robotics, and AI (Jul 2025)
Paper 'EnvoDat: A Large-Scale Multisensory Dataset for Robotic Spatial…' accepted at ICRA 2025 (Jan 2025)
Paper 'Privacy-Aw...' accepted at ICLR 2025 (Jan 2025)
Background
Professor and Chair of Cyber-Physical Systems at Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria
Research at the intersection of artificial intelligence and autonomous systems
Developing foundation models for robotics
Focus areas include robot skill learning, dexterous and visual–tactile manipulation, reinforcement learning, self-supervised, active/interactive, and intrinsically motivated learning
Investigating inference and reasoning mechanisms for robot generalization and adaptation in complex environments
Applications in humanoid robotics, industrial production, recycling, and mining to enhance safety, efficiency, and sustainability through intelligent robotic solutions