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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- June 7th, 2025: In the scope of ROMANDIC we are co-organizing the “5th workshop on RObotic MAnipulation of Deformable Objects: holistic approaches and challenges forward“.
- June 26th, 2025: I visited prof. Senka Krivic at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the University of Sarajevo in the scope of an ARIS bilateral Slovenia-BiH project.
- June 19th, 2025: Our paper “Improving Unfolding Success Rate through Cloth Pose Correction”, by Jan Jerićević, Peter Nimac, Domen Tabernik, and Andrej Gams, was presented at RAAD 2025 conference in Belgrade, Serbia.
- May 30th, 2025: Our contribution to the IPSSC conference “Unfolding the challenge: Robotic Solution to Autonomously Unfold Crumpled Garments”, by Nimac, Tabernik, Jerićević, Gams, received the BEST contribution award. Congrats to the presenting author Peter Nimac.
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