Oliver Kroemer

Dr. Oliver Kroemer is an assistant professor at the Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Robotics Institute where he leads the Intelligent Autonomous Manipulation Lab. His research focuses on developing algorithms and representations to enable robots to learn versatile and robust manipulation skills. Before joining CMU, Dr. Kroemer was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Southern California (USC) for two and a half years. He received his Masters and Bachelors degrees in engineering from the University of Cambridge in 2008. From 2009 to 2011, he was a Ph.D. student at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. He defended his Ph.D. thesis on Machine Learning for Robot Grasping and Manipulation in 2014 at the Technische Universitaet Darmstadt