About me

I am a robotics researcher 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

• Dec. 01. 2023: In the scope of EU project euROBIN we completed and submitted to review a survey on Transfer Learning: Transfer Learning in Robotics: An Upcoming Breakthrough? A Review of Promises and Challenges (Jaquier, Welle, Gams, Yao, Fichera, Billard, Ude Asfour, Kragic) – availabe at arxiv.
• Sep. 28. 2023: We published a paper at the International Electrotechnical and Computer Science Conference (ERK).
• June 15. 2023: I gave a keynote presentation titled “Robot Learning: from imitation to learning in simulation” at RAAD 2023 conference.
• June 14. 2023: I co-authored 3 papers at Robotics in Alpe-Adria-Danube region (RAAD) 2023 conference.

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.

Teaching

I am co-lecturer of subject “Humanoid and Service Robotics” at Jožef Stefan International postgraduate Scool (MPŠ).