| May 01, 2025 | I’ve officially finished my Ph.D., supervised by Marco Hutter, Georg Martius, and Cesar Cadena—deep thanks to my committee members and long-term collaborators Maurice Fallon and Shehryar Khattak for their support over the years. |
| Apr 20, 2024 | Our paper “Resilient Legged Local Navigation: Learning to Traverse with Compromised Perception End-to-End,” has been nominated for the Best Paper Award for ICRA2024! Key Insights: - Unreliable Perception Systems: It’s impossible to always guarantee the reliability of perception systems.
- Need for Advanced Planning: There is a critical need for planners that can detect failures in perception systems and react appropriately.
- Use of Proprioceptive Data: Detecting these failures is feasible through the use of proprioceptive data.
- Limitations of Traditional Methods: Classical planning methods often fail to utilize such data effectively, prompting the need for innovative solutions.
- Using RL to Discover Emerging Navigation Strategies: Rather than relying on handcrafted heuristics, we use reinforcement learning (RL) and expose the robot to an environment with various types of perception failures. Our asymmetric actor-critic framework discovers emerging navigation strategies.
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| Mar 19, 2024 | We’re thrilled to announce that our grant application for  “Fostering Research on Mobile Robotics with High-Quality Data and Open Tooling” has been accepted! We aim to provide researchers with tailored, high-quality data for legged robots, to establish standardized benchmarks and foster the development of future algorithms. Stay tuned for updates as we advance mobile robotics research. Special thanks to Turcan Tuna, Marco Hutter, and Cesar Cadena! Learn more about the open research data initiative here. link |
| Dec 06, 2021 | Our work: “Continual Learning of Semantic Segmentation using Complementary 2D-3D Data Representations” received the Best Paper Runner-Up Award at NeurIPS - 2021 4th Robot Learning Workshop Self-Supervised and Lifelong Learning link |
| Aug 31, 2021 | I received my Master from ETH Zurich in Robotics Systems and Contol graduating with Summa cum Laude. |