Event FinderData-driven Learning and Control Seminar: Angela Schoellig (TU Munich)
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Data Driven Learning and Control seminar series is organized by the Information and Decision Science Lab at Cornell University and aims to explore the latest advancements and interdisciplinary approaches to data-driven learning and control systems. Watch on YouTube Live Bio: Angela Schoellig is an Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence at the Technical University of Munich. She is a member of the Board of Directors at the Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence and serves as the coordinator of the Robotics Institute Germany. Before moving to Munich in 2022, she was an associate professor at the University of Toronto and a faculty member of the Vector Institute for AI. Angela conducts research at the intersection of robotics, controls, and machine learning. Her goal is to enhance the performance, safety, and autonomy of robots by enabling them to learn from past experiments and from each other. Angela has held a Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Machine Learning for Robotics & Control and a Canada CIFAR Chair in AI. She has also been a principal investigator of the NSERC Canadian Robotics Network. Angela is the recipient of an NSERC Arthur B. McDonald Fellowship (2022), the Robotics: Science and Systems Early Career Spotlight Award (2019), a Sloan Research Fellowship (2017), and an Ontario Early Researcher Award (2017). She is a Curious Minds Award winner (2022), an MIT Technology Review’s Innovators Under 35 (2017), a Canada Science Leadership Program Fellow (2014), and one of Robohub’s “25 women in robotics you need to know about” (2013). Her team is the four-time winner of the North American SAE AutoDrive Challenge (2018-21). Angela’s Ph.D. at ETH Zurich (2013) was awarded the ETH Medal and the Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation Award. She holds an M.Sc. in engineering cybernetics from the University of Stuttgart (2008) and an M.Sc. in engineering science and mechanics from the Georgia Institute of Technology (2007).