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Oct 28, 2026 New blog post on our upcoming book chapter: Who is in charge? Robot autonomy levels for human-in-the-loop systems.
Oct 26, 2026 Serving as an Associate Editor for Robot Learning topics at IEEE ICRA 2027.
Oct 26, 2026 Our paper SYMBOLIZER: Symbolic Model-free Task Planning with VLMs was accepted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L).
Aug 15, 2026 Co-organized the CAIPI&PRL workshop on Bridging the Gap Between AI Planning and Reinforcement Learning at IJCAI 2026 in Bremen, Germany.
Jul 27, 2026 Attended the Eastern European Machine Learning Summer School (EEML 2026) in Cetinje, Montenegro.
Jun 28, 2026 Co-organized the Bridging the Gap Between AI Planning and Reinforcement Learning (PRL) workshop at ICAPS 2026 in Dublin, Ireland.
Jun 01, 2026 Organizing Xplore - Cross-Disciplinary aspects of Exploration in Robotics, Reinforcement Learning and Search at ICRA 2026.
May 31, 2026 Serving as an Area Chair for Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL).
May 11, 2026 Co-organizing the 1st IEEE RAS Summer School in Germany — Decision-Making for Cognitive Robots (4th edition of the Summer School on Cognitive Robotics), 6–11 September 2026, Abtei Frauenwörth, Chiemsee, Germany.
Apr 01, 2026 Joined UAS Technikum Wien in Vienna, Austria, as a Senior Lecturer and Researcher.
Mar 15, 2026 Serving as an Associate Editor for IEEE IROS 2026.
Feb 02, 2026 Our article Sequentially Teaching Sequential Tasks (ST)2: Teaching Robots Long-Horizon Manipulation Skills was published in IEEE RAM.
Feb 01, 2026 Our article Sequentially Teaching Sequential Tasks (ST)2: Teaching Robots Long-Horizon Manipulation Skills and paper LLM-Guided Task- and Affordance-Level Exploration in Reinforcement Learning were accepted to ICRA 2026.
Oct 30, 2025 Gave an invited talk at AI2Future Conference 2025 in Zagreb, Croatia — “Machine Learning and Reasoning for Intelligent Robots.”
Sep 05, 2025 Serving as an Associate Editor for IEEE ICRA 2026.
Sep 04, 2025 Our paper Search-Based Robot Motion Planning with Distance-Adaptive Primitives received the Best Paper Award 🏆 at ICAT 2025 in Sarajevo.
Aug 20, 2025 Three papers accepted at ICAT 2025 in Sarajevo: Scenario-Based HRL for Automated Driving, PARTNR: Pick and place Ambiguity Resolving by Trustworthy iNteractive leaRning. and Search-Based Robot Motion Planning with Distance-Adaptive Primitives.
Jul 24, 2025 Co-organized the Eastern European Machine Learning Summer School (EEML 2025) in Sarajevo and moderated a panel on “AI Potential in Bosnia and Herzegovina”.
Jun 15, 2025 Co-organizing the PlanRob Workshop at ICAPS 2025.
May 10, 2025 Co-organizing the Planning and Reinforcement Learning (PRL) Workshop at ICAPS 2025.
Apr 16, 2025 Paper accepted at TMLR: ASkDAgger: Active Skill-level Data Aggregation for Interactive Imitation Learning.
Mar 25, 2025 Gave an invited talk to the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory AI group, discussing Search-based Task and Motion Planning: Towards Agile Autonomous Robots.
Jan 24, 2025 Gave a Talk2Future invited talk at Pro2Future: “AI Planning and Learning for Intelligent Robots.”
Jan 06, 2025 Preprint released: Mode Collapse Happens: Evaluating Critical Interactions in Joint Trajectory Prediction Models.
Jan 05, 2025 Co-organizing the Planning and Reinforcement Learning (PRL) Workshop at AAAI 2025.
Nov 01, 2024 Serving as an Associate Editor for the conference IEEE ICRA 2025.
Sep 09, 2024 ICRA 2025 paper announced: ExploRLLM: Guiding Exploration in Reinforcement Learning with Large Language Models.
Apr 25, 2024 Gave an interview for Bloomberg Adria discussing robotics, AI planning and the future of autonomous systems.
Sep 01, 2023 Started a new position as Postdoctoral Researcher at RWTH Aachen University at the Chair of Machine Learning and Reasoning led by Prof. Hector Geffner.
Jul 27, 2023 Completed the DAAD AInet PostDoc-NeT-AI tour across Germany including TU Berlin, TU Munich, Uni Freiburg, KIT, Bosch Center of AI.
Jun 02, 2023 Serving as a member of ICAPS 2024 Organizing Team.
Jun 02, 2023 Awareded DAAD AInet Fellowship, more info to follow.
May 28, 2023 Attending ICRA. We are organizing the Life-Long Learning with Human Help (L3H2) workshop.
Apr 27, 2023 Our workshop paper was accepted to the Bridging the Gap Between AI Planning and Reinforcement Learning (PRL @ ICAPS 2023) – Workshop at ICAPS 2023.
Mar 01, 2023 Serving as an Associate Editor for IEEE/RSJ IROS 2023.