Robot Learning Lab
Department for Empirical Inference & Machine Learning (AG
Schoelkopf)
Max
Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
Member » Curriculum Vitae: Duy Nguyen-Tuong
Current Position
Ph.D. Student
Dept. Empirical Inference (Dept. Head: Bernhard Schölkopf)
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany
| Educational Background | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 07.2007-now | Ph.D. Student | ||
| supervised by Jan Peters and Bernhard Schölkopf | |||
| Dept. Empirical Inference, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany | |||
| 11.2006-05.2007 | Diplomarbeit (Master's thesis) | ||
| Bosch Corporate Research, Schwieberdingen, Germany | |||
| Thesis Title: Fault diagnosis of fully variable valve train using knock sensor signal | |||
| 03.2006-08.2006 | Studienarbeit (Research thesis) | ||
| Daimler AG Group Research, Stuttgart, Germany | |||
| Thesis Title: Estimation of vehicle loading state | |||
| 07.2005-12.2005 | Studienarbeit (Research thesis) | ||
| Institute for Numerical Mechanics, University Stuttgart, Germany | |||
| Thesis Title: Modeling the Impact of Planar Deformable Bodies using a Linear Complementarity Formulation | |||
| 10.2001-07.2007 | Studies in Automation Engineering | ||
| University of Stuttgart, Germany | |||
| 07.2004-08.2005 | Studies in Control Engineering | ||
| National University of Singapore, Singapore | |||
| 2000 | Abitur | ||
| Research Positions | |||
| 06.2008-07.2008 | Visiting Researcher | ||
| Computational Learning and Motor Control Lab (Head: Stefan Schaal), University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA | |||
| 10.2005-07.2006 | Student Researcher | ||
| Bosch Corporate Research, Schwieberdingen, Germany | |||
| 05.2002–06.2004 | Student Researcher | ||
| Zentrum für Fertigungstechnik Stuttgart, University Stuttgart, Germany | |||
| Work Experience | |||
| 09.2006-11.2006 | Internship at Robert Bosch gmbh | ||
| Stuttgart, Germany | |||
| 02.2002-04.2002 | Internship at Robert Bosch gmbh | ||
| Stuttgart, Germany | |||
| 08.2001-10.2001 | Internship at Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG | ||
| Waldorf-Heidelberg, Germany | |||
| 09.2000-08.2001 | Civil Service at Deutsche Stiftung für Internationale Entwicklung | ||
| Mannheim, Germany | |||
| Oral Presentations and Workshop Organization | |||
| 04.2008 | Learning Inverse Dynamics for Control | ||
| at the European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN). | |||
| 06.2008 | Computed Torque Control using Non-parametric Regression Models | ||
| at the American Control Conference (ACC). | |||
| 08.2008 | Learning Inverse Dynamics with Local Gaussian Process Regression | ||
| at the Symposium on Learning and Adaptive Behaviour in Robotic Systems. | |||
| 10.2008 | Local Gaussian Processes Regression for Real-time Model-based Robot Control | ||
| at IEEE/RSJ Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). | |||
| 10.2009 | Sparse Online Model Learning for Robot Control with Support Vector Regression | ||
| at IEEE/RSJ Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). | |||
| 12.2009 | Workshop Probabilistic Approaches for Robotics and Control. | ||
| at Neural Information Processing Systems 2009 (NIPS). | |||
| Awards and Honors | |||
| 2008 | Finalist for Conference Best Paper Award | ||
| IEEE/RSJ Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). | |||
| 2004-2005 | Scholarship from Landesstiftung Baden-Württemberg. | ||
| Paper Reviewing | |||
| 2009 | International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) | ||
| Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) | |||
| Autonomous Robots Journal | |||
| Neural Computation | |||
| Journal of Systems and Control Engineering | |||
| 2008 | International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) | ||
| Human Movement Science | |||
| International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP) | |||
| Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) | |||
| International Conference on Robotic Systems (IROS) | |||
| International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) | |||
| International Conference on Cognitive Systems (COGSYS) | |||
| Journal of Systems and Control Engineering | |||
| International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR) | |||
| 2007 | Systems, Man and Cybernetics - Part B | ||
| Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) | |||
| References, etc. | |||
| References are available upon request. | |||