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Career

· Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University2025–
· Visiting Researcher, Stanford University2023–2024
· Doctoral Student, Technical University of Munich2021–2025
· Master-Student, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)2020–2020
· Engineering Intern, Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America, Inc.2019–2019
· Student Intern, Daimler AG2018–2018
· Student Research Assistant, FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik2018–2019
· Student Research Assistant, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)2016–2018
· Student Research Assistant, Fraunhofer IOSB2015–2016

Publications (16)

Provably Safe Deep Reinforcement Learning for Robotic Manipulation in Human Environments
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation · 2022
42
cited
Provably Safe Reinforcement Learning: Conceptual Analysis, Survey, and Benchmarking
Trans. Mach. Learn. Res. · 2022
40
cited
Learning from the crowd: Road infrastructure monitoring system
2017
29
cited
SaRA: A Tool for Safe Human-Robot Coexistence and Collaboration through Reachability Analysis
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation · 2022
25
cited
Excluding the Irrelevant: Focusing Reinforcement Learning through Continuous Action Masking
Neural Information Processing Systems · 2024
15
cited
Characterization of Road Condition with Data Mining Based on Measured Kinematic Vehicle Parameters
Journal of Advanced Transportation · 2018
11
cited
Human-Robot Gym: Benchmarking Reinforcement Learning in Human-Robot Collaboration
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation · 2023
11
cited
Provably Safe Reinforcement Learning: A Theoretical and Experimental Comparison
arXiv.org · 2022
11
cited
Mixture of Experts of Neural Networks and Kalman Filters for Optical Belt Sorting
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics · 2022
9
cited
Reducing Safety Interventions in Provably Safe Reinforcement Learning
IEEE/RJS International Conference on Intelligent RObots and Systems · 2023
5
cited
Text2Interaction: Establishing Safe and Preferable Human-Robot Interaction
Conference on Robot Learning · 2024
5
cited
A novel approach to label road defects in video data: semi-automated video analysis
International Journal on Smart Sensing and Intelligent Systems · 2020
3
cited
Multiple vehicle fusion for a robust road condition estimation based on vehicle sensors and data mining
2018
3
cited
A General Safety Framework for Autonomous Manipulation in Human Environments
arXiv.org · 2024
2
cited
Parking events derived from trip data from MiD2008
2019
2
cited
From Demonstrations to Safe Deployment: Path-Consistent Safety Filtering for Diffusion Policies
arXiv.org · 2025
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