Biography
Dr. Freek Stulp is head of the department of cognitive robotics at the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics at the German Aerospace Center (DLR). His research interests include robotics, semantic planning, motion primitives, reinforcement learning, and continual “always on” learning for physical robot systems. He received his doctorate degree in Computer Science from the Technische Universität München in 2007. He was awarded post-doctoral research fellowships from the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science and the German Research Foundation (DFG), to pursue his research at the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International in Kyoto and the University of Southern California in Los Angeles respectively. Before joining DLR, he was an assistant professor at ENSTA-ParisTech, and a member of the FLOWERS team at INRIA Bordeaux.
