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
- Oct. 1st: Our project ROMANDIC has started. This Twinning project deals with generating a network on the topic oh robot handling of deformables, and will last for 3 years.
- Sept 26th: We presented our paper Razvojna robotska celica za razgrinjanje tekstila (Nimac, Tabernik, Skočaj, Gams) at ERK 2024.
- Sept. 16th: Our paper Transfer learning in robotics: An upcoming breakthrough? A review of promises and challenges (Jaquier, Welle, Gams, Yao, Fichera, Billard, Ude, Asfour, Kragic) has been published in IJRR!
- July 12th: Our proposal for a new European project titled AID4SME has been approved for funding by the EC. The project is scheduled to start late 2024 or early 2025.
- July 10th 2024: Our paper Adaptive Visual Quality Inspection Based on Defect Prediction From Production Parameters (Lončarević, Reberšek, Šela, Skvarč, Ude, Gams)has been published in IEEE Access
- June 3rd: I coauthored 2 papers presented at RAAD 2024. Our paper with Peter Nimac got the the Best APPLICATION Paper Finalist Award.
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- April 1st: I took over from Bojan Nemec as head of the Humanoid and Cognitive Robotics Lab.
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).
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