Julen Urain
Postdoctoral Researcher at the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)
I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Intelligent Autonomous Systems lab (IAS) and the DFKI. I recently received my PhD in Computer Science with summa cum laude from TU Darmstadt under the supervision of Prof. Jan Peters. Previously, I interned as a researcher in Nvidia’s Seattle Robotics Lab (SRL). My research have received several awards including several best paper awards and I was finalist for the George Giralt PhD award. I was honoured to be selected as an R:SS Pioneer in 2023.
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, optimization, and reinforcement learning.
If you are interested in similar topics, I am always looking for collaborations or thesis supervision, so please do not hesitate to contact me.
Contact: julen [at] robot-learning [dot] de
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news
Jul 20, 2024 | We won Best Paper Award in Structural Priors as Inductive Biases for Learning Robot Dynamics at RSS 2024 for our work on ActionFlows. |
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Feb 07, 2024 | I have been selected as finalist for the George Girault Ph.D. award!! Europe’s highest honor for a robotics dissertation |
Dec 18, 2023 | I succesfully defended my Ph.D with Suma Cum Laude |
Jun 02, 2023 | We won Best Paper Award in Geometric Representations Workshop at ICRA 2023 for our work on SE(3) DiffusionFields. |
Apr 28, 2023 | I am a R:SS Pioneer! A 30 member strong-cohort of top early robotics researchers (%22 acceptance). |
selected publications
- SE(3)-DiffusionFields: Learning smooth cost functions for joint grasp and motion optimization through diffusionICRA, 2023
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- Composable Energy Policies for Reactive Motion Generation and Reinforcement LearningR:SS / IJRR, 2021
- Benchmarking Structured Policies and Policy Optimization for Real-World Dexterous Object ManipulationRA-L, 2021