Awards & Honors

• IEEE Fellow
• ERC Advanced Grant
• Member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW)
• Best Reviewer Award, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society 
• The Outstanding Young Person in Science and Innovation, Junior Chamber of Commerce, Switzerland 
• Innovative Teaching Grant , Intel Corporation 

• AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, New York, February 10, 2020
•  Conference on Machine Learning, ICML, Long Beach, USA 
• 11th IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems, Vienna, Austria
• 12th Progress in Motor Control Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• 10th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, Wuhan, China
• 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Christchurch, NZ 
• IEEE International Conference on Humanoids, Seoul, Korea
• IEEE-RAS International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Karlsruhe, Germany
• IEEE Symposium on Human-Robot Interactive Communication, Nashville, USA

• Best Student Paper Award, Robotics Science and Systems, (RSS)
• Finalist Best Overall Conference Paper Award, Robotics Science and Systems, (RSS)
• King-Sun Fu Best Transactions Paper Award, IEEE & Robotics and Automation Society
• Best Cognitive Robotics Paper Award, Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
• JTSC Novel Technology Best Paper Award, IEEE Int. Conf. Intellig. & Robotics Syst. (IROS)
• Best Paper Award, IEEE Symposium on Human-Robot Interaction (ROMAN)
• Best Paper Award, Workshop on Universal Access and Assistive Technology (CWUATT)
• Finalist for Best Paper Award, Neural Information Processing Symposium
• Finalist for Best Paper Award, IEEE Int. Conf. on Humanoid Robots

Current work