Head of Advanced Development Analytics & Control at Festo SE & Co. KG — leading 36 engineers across Stuttgart, Bangalore, and Moldova on AI, autonomous systems, control theory, and embedded software.
General Chair, IAAI (Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence) — the AAAI-affiliated conference and world's leading forum for deployed, real-world AI systems.
- Embedded AI for highly specialized applications deployed on real industrial components
- Physical AI & autonomous systems — AI that acts in the physical world: reinforcement learning for motion strategies, physics-informed ML, and AI-driven actuation at Festo
- Industrial LLMs & RAG — deployed the Festo Virtual Assistant (GPT-4, 2023) globally across the full product portfolio
- Multi-agent systems — architecture and deployment of multi-agent AI for industrial environments; presented live to 100,000+ viewers
- Festo–Nvidia Isaac Sim integration — digital-twin simulation platform for AI-driven industrial robot development (Best Paper Finalist, IROS 2024)
- GripperAI — RL-based robotic picking system deployed at Würth Logistics (2023)
- Rapid² — internal AI rapid-prototyping platform connected to Nvidia Omniverse/Isaac Sim
- Speaker, Digital-Gipfel — German Federal Government AI strategy forum
- Expert advisor, Plattform Lernende Systeme — Germany's national AI policy board
- Keynote speaker: Hannover Messe, Industrial AI Conference, Konstruktionsleiterforum
- Reviewer, CoRL Workshop on Safe and Robust Robot Learning
- Lecturer: Applied AI (HS Esslingen), Real-Time Systems & IoT (DHBW Stuttgart)
