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Curriculum vitae Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dipl.-Inform. Jan. Peters, PhD

  • Education

    2007 PhD in Computer Science, Computer Science Department, University of Southern California, USA
    2004-2005 M.Sc. in Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering (Dynamics & Control), Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Southern California, USA
    2001-2002 M.Sc. in Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Southern California, USA
    2000–2001 Visiting student Mechatronics, National University of Singapore, Singapore
    1996–2002 Dipl.-Engineer Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Munich, Germany
    1996–2000 Dipl.-Computer Scientist, FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany

  • Academic and Professional Career

    2022-current Department Head SAIROL, German AI Research Center (DFAI)
    2011-current Full professor for Intelligent Autonomous Systems, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
    2011-2021 Interdepart. Group Leader, Depts. Empirical Inference and Autonomous Motion, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen, Germany
    2007-2010 Senior Research Scientist/Group Leader, Dept. Empirical Inference,  Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany
    2001-2007 Graduate Research Assistant, Computational Learning and Motor Control Lab, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
    2000, 2003 Visiting Researcher, Department of Computational Neuroscience and Humanoid Robotics, Advanced Telecommunication Research Center ATR, Kyoto, Japan
    2000-2001 Automation Engineering, Siemens Advanced Engineering Ltd., Singapore
    1998-2000 Undergraduate Research Assistant, Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics of the German Aerospace Research Institute DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany

  • Institutional Responsibilities

    2022-current Managing Director of the Darmstadt Unit of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFAI)
    2021-current Dean of Student Affairs, Dept. Computer Science, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
    2020-current Founding Member of Hessian Center for Artificial Intelligence hessian.AI
    2019-current Founding Director, ELLIS Robot Learning: Closing the Reality Gap!
    2011-2013 Programme Manager, PASCAL2 Thematic Programme: Cognitive Architectures & Robotics
    2008-2012 Founding Chair, IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Robot Learning with N. Roy (MIT), R. Tedrake (MIT), J. Morimoto (ATR)

  • Commissions of Trust

    2018 Program Chair, International Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL)
    2017 Program Chair, IEEE International Conference on Humanoid Robotics
    2014-2017 Editor, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
    2013-current Action Editor Journal of Machine Learning Research (JLMR)
    2011-2015 Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Robotics (TRo)
    2007-current Reviewer for the national science foundations of Austria, Belgium, Canada, ERC, EU-ICT, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, USA, Slovenia, Switzerland
    2007-current Administration, robotics-worldwide, Main robotics mailing list with ∼25.000 members with Stefan Schaal, Michael Mistry and since 2015 also Tamim Asfour

  • Fellowships, Awards and Third Party Funding

    2024, 2018 2024, 2018 PhD Advisor of two IEEE Robotics & Automation Early Career Award recipients (R. Calandra 2024, J. Kober 2018)
    2022 EIC Transition Grant ‘VRP’
    2021 AIAI Fellow
    2021 Amazon Research Award
    2020 ELLIS Fellow
    2019 IEEE Fellow
    2016-2021 ERC Starting Grant ‘SKILLS4ROBOTS’
    2013 Young Investigator Award of the International Neural Networks Society (INNS)
    2013 Early Career Award of the IEEE (Robotics & Automation Society RAS)
    2012 Early Career Spotlight at Robotics: Science & Systems
    2011 Dick Volz Best 2007 U.S. Robotics PhD Thesis Runner-Up Award
    2011-2021 PhD Advisor to two Best European Robotics PhD Thesis Awards (M. Lutter, J. Kober) and three Best European Robotics PhD Thesis Finalists (O. Kroemer, R. Lioutikov, J. Urain)
    2008-current 22 Best Paper Awards/Finalist or similar awards

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