About me
I am a robotics researcher and head of the Humanoid and Cognitive Robotics Lab at the Department of automatics, biocybernetics and robotics at Jožef Stefan Institute (JSI). My current title is Senior research associate (eq. Assoc. prof). I am also an Associate Professor at Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School (IPS).
I received the Diploma degree in electrical engineering in 2004, and a Ph.D. degree in robotics from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, in 2009. I was previosly a Postdoctoral Researcher with SCIEX NMS-CH fellowship at the Biorobotics Laboratory, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, during 2012–13, where I also did a part of my Ph.D. research in 2007–08. I was a visiting researcher at the ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories in the summers of 2009 and 2014.
I received the Jožef Stefan Golden Emblem Award for Ph.D. dissertation for 2012, the ICRA 2015 Best Reviewer Award, the Best Scientific paper award at the 23rd International Conference on Robotics in Alpe-Adria-Danube Regions in 2014 and Best Paper Research Award at the 19th International Workshop in the Alpe-Adria-Danube region .
My research interests are focused on robot learning, applicable for humanoid and industrial robotics.
News
- April 1st 2024: I took over from Bojan Nemec as head of the Humanoid and Cognitive Robotics Lab.
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- March 1st 2025: Our project HORACE officially started. I attended the kick-off meeting of this trilateral project between Idiap, Switzerland (PI: Sylvain Calinon), Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia (PI: Andrej Gams) and LAMOR (PI: Ivan Marković) at the premises of Idiap at Martigny in late February.
- Feb. 13th 2025: We presented our textile stretching cell, based on the ICRA competition cell, at the IFAM 2025 fair in Ljubljana.
- Dec. 4th 2024: I attended the AID4SME project kick-off meeting in Leuven, Belgium. The goal of the project is to support SMEs to develop combined Artificial Intelligence & Data Solutions for large scale resource optimisation challenges.
- Nov. 28th 2024: I attended HUMANOIDS 2024 and the euROBIN meeting in Nancy, where we took part in the 1st euROBIN coopetition. Our JSI-HCR team won the Robotic manufacturing for a circular economy League! Winners, photo1, photo2.
- Nov. 7th 2024: Project ROMANDIC kick-off meeting hosting representatives from KIT and CSIC was held at Jožef Stefan Institute.
Publications et al.
A list of my publications is available at Google Scholar.
My complete bibliography is available at the Slovenian publications database COBISS.
Some videos showing my work are available at my Youtube channel (updated sparsely).
I am proud of my awards: 2015 ICRA CEB Best Reviewer Award, 2012 Jožef Stefan Golden Emblem award for Ph.D., 2014 RAAD Best Scientific Paper Award, 2010 RAAD Best Scientific Paper Award.
I am proud of our team achievement:ICRA 2024 – Cloth Competition where we ranked 2nd; 1st euROBIN coopetition where we won the Robotic manufacturing for a circular economy League.
Teaching
I am co-lecturer of subject “Humanoid and Service Robotics” at Jožef Stefan International postgraduate Scool (MPŠ).
Contact
Andrej Gams
Jožef Stefan Institute
Jamova cesta 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia, EU
+386 (0)1 477 3319
andrej{dot}gams{at}ijs{dot}si