About Markus
Research Scientist and Ph.D. candidate at DLR / TUM with 5+ years of experience designing and deploying foundation-model-based robotic systems. First author on 7 publications in top venues (RA-L, ICRA, IROS, CoRL) spanning VLM/VLA-driven robot skill learning, interactive learning from demonstration, and continual learning. Co-developer of BlenderProc, a scalable open-source training-data pipeline (3,300+ GitHub stars). Experienced in cross-team collaboration with industry partners and EU consortia.
English
Fluent
German
Native or bilingual
Can work on-site
München (up to 50km)
Experience
- German Aerospace Center (DLR)Research ScientistRESEARCHNovember 2020 - Today (5 years and 9 months)Munich Metropolitan Area, Germany• • Specialized in machine learning for robotics, focusing on robot skill learning through imitation and continuous adaptation.• • Developed multimodal human-robot interaction techniques using probabilistic machine learning and foundation models.• • Showcased innovative solutions at various fairs, demonstrating real-time problem-solving capabilities on actual robots.
- Technical University of MunichTeaching AssistantRESEARCHOctober 2024 - Today (1 year and 10 months)Munich, GermanyMachine learning in robotics combining safety, explainability and uncertainties from probabilistic machine learning together with semantic reasoning and understanding by foundation models (LLM, VLM, VLA) for robot skill learning and adaptation
- German Aerospace Center (DLR)Masters StudentRESEARCHNovember 2019 - September 2020 (10 months)Munich, GermanyWorking student, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Roboticsand Mechatronics, Department: Perception and Cognition,Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany.Developed computer vision and deep learning solutions for roboticperception. Designed neural network architectures for online learningapplications.Co-developed BlenderProc, a scalable open-source photorealisticrendering pipeline for generating large-scale synthetic training data(3,300+ GitHub stars, published at RSS 2020 and JOSS 2023)
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Education
- Doktor / PhDTechnical University of Munich (TUM)Doctoral candidate/Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) in Computer Science, Major: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology (CIT), Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany with Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alin Albu-Schäff
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