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Career

· PhD Student, Robotic Systems Lab, ETH Zurich2016–2021
· Visiting Student, Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology2014–
· Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, ETH Zurich2011–2016
· International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma, Bromsgrove School2009–2011
· Visiting Researcher, Autonomous Systems Lab, Stanford University
· Software Engineer, NVIDIA

Publications (17)

Whole-Body Nonlinear Model Predictive Control Through Contacts for Quadrupeds
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · 2017
282
cited
CERBERUS: Autonomous Legged and Aerial Robotic Exploration in the Tunnel and Urban Circuits of the DARPA Subterranean Challenge
Field Robotics · 2022
127
cited
Trajectory Optimization With Implicit Hard Contacts
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · 2018
73
cited
MPC-Net: A First Principles Guided Policy Search
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · 2019
60
cited
Contact-Implicit Trajectory Optimization for Dynamic Object Manipulation
IEEE/RJS International Conference on Intelligent RObots and Systems · 2019
50
cited
Trajectory Optimization for Legged Robots With Slipping Motions
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · 2019
49
cited
Imitation Learning from MPC for Quadrupedal Multi-Gait Control
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation · 2021
43
cited
Deployment of an autonomous mobile manipulator at MBZIRC
J. Field Robotics · 2018
31
cited
TacSL: A Library for Visuotactile Sensor Simulation and Learning
IEEE Transactions on robotics · 2024
27
cited
Constrained stochastic optimal control with learned importance sampling: A path integral approach
Int. J. Robotics Res. · 2021
24
cited
Isaac Lab: A GPU-Accelerated Simulation Framework for Multi-Modal Robot Learning
arXiv.org · 2025
24
cited
Locomotion Planning through a Hybrid Bayesian Trajectory Optimization
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation · 2019
17
cited
Autonomous Mission with a Mobile Manipulator - A Solution to the MBZIRC
International Symposium on Field and Service Robotics · 2017
7
cited
Learning to Walk Over Structured Terrains by Imitating MPC
2021
Optimization and Learning Algorithms for Dynamic Locomotion of Walking Robots
2021
Primer on Spatial Algebra
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