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Julen Urain Postdoctoral Researcher at the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)
I recently received my doctorate from TU Darmstadt under the supervision of Prof. Jan Peters . I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Intelligent Autonomous Systems lab (IAS) and the DFKI . Previously, I interned as a researcher in Nvidia’s Seattle Robotics Lab (SRL) . I did my Master’s degree at UPC and my Master’s Thesis at EPFL in the Biorobotics Lab. For my research, I was honoured to be selected as an R:SS Pioneer.
My research interests lie at the intersection of robotics and machine learning . In particular I explore the combination of fields such as deep generative models, motion planning and control, imitation learning, optimisation, and reinforcement learning. During my PhD, I adapted diffusion models to the Lie group SE(3) to represent 6-DoF grasp pose distributions, explored the composability of energy-based models for reactive motion generation and exploited normalizing flows to learn nonlinear globally stable