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Responsibilities

Head of the Unit of Computing Sciences, Professor (Computer engineering) 

About me

I am determined to solve challenging robotics problems, build autonomous robots to work for human and with human, and train future robotics engineers to be able to do so. 

Responsibilities

Responsible for Robotics major, and international program on Factory Automation and Robotics.
Member of engineering degree program planning group; member of automation program development group.  

Field of expertise

Autonomous machines, robotics, AI, optimal control, imitation learning, motion control, optimal trajectory planning, model predictive control, control-estimation integration, construction robotics. 

I am both with Robotics and Intelligent Machines Lab (https://research.tuni.fi/robotics/) and Innovative Hydraulics and Automation Lab (https://research.tuni.fi/iha/).

Research topics

Currently: making autonomy easier by learning methods, more generic estimation and control solutions, software tools, and understanding safety for autonomous mobile machines

About me

I lead the Cognitive Robotics research group. My research interests are in enabling humans and robots to interact and collaborate.

Responsibilities

Co-responsible for TAU's robotics major studies and Robolab Tampere

Research topics

• Human-robot interaction
• Cognitive robotics
• Deep learning for robotics
• Robot design

Research unit

Automation Technology and Mechanical Engineering

Research career

I obtained my MSc and PhD in robotics at Eindhoven University of Technology (NL) in 2009 and 2013, respectively. I was a postdoctoral researcher in ETH Zurich (CH) from 2013 to 2016 and in Aalto University (FI) from 2016 to 2017.
Since September 2017 I lead the Cognitive Robotics research group at Tampere University.