Short Biography
I am a PhD Student at Arizona State University and part of the Interactive Robotics Laboratory lead by Prof. Heni Ben Amor. I majored in Computer Science with a strong focus on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Prior to that I received a bachelor and master degree in Engineering and Computing from the TU Bergakademie Freiberg. During my time in Germany, I worked within the Humanoid Robotics Group Freiberg under the lead of Prof. Bernhard Jung.
Throughout my academic career, I am working on bridging the gap between cognition and robotics by using modern approaches to artificial intelligence, specifically by enhancing imitation learning with natural language processing. The novelty of my work lies in using language as a natural interface for humans to convey their intention to the robot, while it allows the robot to communicate its intention back to the human. My recent work on this topic, presented at the Southwest Robotics Symposium 2019, was awarded the best poster award by NVIDIA.
Education
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2017 - Projected 2020 PhD Computer Science
School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering
Arizona State University, USA -
2015 - 2016 M.Sc. Engineering & Computing
Master of Science
Technische Universität Freiberg, Germany -
2011 - 2015 B.Sc. Engineering & Computing
Bachelor of Science
Technische Universität Freiberg, Germany
