Teaching

I teach robotics through lectures, research supervision and hands-on systems work. My focus is to connect probabilistic reasoning and modern perception with implementation on real robots.

Lectures

Humanoid Robotics

Redesigned the manipulation and perception lectures, exercises and assessments. Introduced current perception pipelines and semantic mapping; conducted oral and written examinations and managed grading.

Summer 2025, 2026

Cognitive Robotics

Stand-in lecturer and teaching assistant for probabilistic robotics. Designed assignments and examinations, supervised programming work and managed grading.

2022–2024

Reinforcement Learning and MATLAB

Graded Reinforcement Learning tutorials at the University of Bremen and organized a one-day MATLAB workshop for undergraduate engineering students at SPCE.

Earlier teaching

MSc theses

I have supervised five completed MSc theses at the University of Bonn, resulting in two full conference papers and one workshop paper. Two theses received awards in 2026.

Currently supervising

  • Coupling Visibility-Aware MPC with Whole-Body Control for an Omnidirectional Mobile Manipulator Grasping Moving Objects in Cluttered Environments
  • Clutter-Aware Active Perception for Mobile Manipulation in Unknown Environments using Scene Graphs

Completed MSc theses

2026

Evidential Learning of Semantic Scene Graphs for Pepper Plants

Bonner Informatik Group Best Thesis Award · SG-DOR, IROS 2026.

2026

Open-Vocabulary and Semantic-Aware Search and Retrieval of Objects using the Stretch Robot

Grace Hopper Thesis Award · IROS 2025 workshop paper.

2024

Coupled Active Perception for Mobile Manipulation

2023

DawnIK: Decentralized Collision-Aware Inverse Kinematics for Heterogeneous Multi-Arm Systems

Humanoids 2023.

2022

Robotic Arm-based Active Perception for Visual Question Answering

Co-supervised MSc theses

2026

Robust Placeability Estimation for Model-Free Unified Pick-and-Place Reasoning

ICRA 2026 workshop paper · extended paper at IROS 2026.

2025

GO-VMP: Global Optimization for View Motion Planning in Fruit Mapping

IROS 2025.

Lab projects

Scene-graph reasoning and navigation for open-vocabulary mobile manipulation
Summer 2026

Open-Vocabulary Mobile Manipulation: Active Perception

Using active perception to acquire task-relevant observations before executing open-vocabulary manipulation commands.

Course page
Flexible command grounding for an underspecified mobile-manipulation request
Summer 2026

Open-Vocabulary Mobile Manipulation: Flexible Command Grounding

Grounding flexible natural-language commands into robot-specific perception, planning and manipulation capabilities.

Course page
Winter 2025/26

Open Sesame!: Whole-Body Control for Opening Furniture

Vision-based handle detection and whole-body motion for opening drawers, doors and cabinets with mobile and humanoid robots.

Course page
Winter 2025/26

Robot Butler: Open-Vocabulary Mobile Manipulation

Translating everyday language into perception, planning and pick-and-place actions on an omnidirectional mobile manipulator.

Course page
Winter 2024/25 · co-supervised

Rock–Paper–Scissors

A human–robot interaction project built around the Rock–Paper–Scissors game.

Seminars

Humanoid Robots seminars

Supervised more than 10 seminar projects covering active perception, manipulation and scene understanding, including research-proposal development and presentation preparation.

Current seminar page
2022–2026

PhD mentoring

I currently mentor three junior PhD students at the Humanoid Robots Lab working on interactive perception and manipulation.