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ceppner at nvidia dot com
I am a Research Scientist in the Seattle Robotics Lab at NVIDIA Research led by Dieter Fox . I am interested in the problem space of grasping and manipulation, including aspects of planning, control, and perception. Although this domain may seem specific, I believe that the hybrid systems nature of grasping and manipulation is echoed in a wide range of important decision-making problems. Furthermore, I consider robotics to be a fundamentally empirical enterprise. Building systems that alter our physical wor
Before joining NVIDIA, I received my Ph.D. at the Robotics and Biology Lab at TU Berlin under the supervision of Oliver Brock . While studying at the University of Freiburg, I wrote my Master's thesis at the Autonomous Intelligent Systems lab headed by Wolfram Burgard and worked at Sven Behnke 's Humanoid Robots Group . I also enjoyed a research stay at Pieter Abbeel 's Robot Learning Lab at UC Berkeley.