Curriculum

Prof. Dr. Martin Riedmiller

Academic Career

  • 2015 - present: Research scientist and team lead at DeepMind, London

  • 2013 -2014: Consultant at DeepMind, London

  • 2011: Research Stay at CSIRO, Sydney (Grant for Distinguished Scientists)

  • 2010 - 2015: Co-Founder Cognit - Lab for learning machines GmbH

  • 2009 - 2015: Professor (W3) for Machine Learning, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg

  • 2006: Research Stay at Stanford University, Prof. Sebastian Thrun

  • 2006: Research Stay at USC (University of Southern California), Prof. Stefan Schaal, LA

  • 2003 - 2009: Professor (C4) for Neuroinformatics, University of Osnabrueck

  • 2002 - 2003: Professor (C3) for Computational Intelligence, University of Dortmund

  • 1999: Research Stay at GMD Research Center, Prof. Dr. K. Müller, Berlin

  • 1998: Research Stay at Carnegie Mellon University, Prof. Andrew Moore, Pittsburgh

  • 1997 - 2002: Research Assistant (C1), University of Karlsruhe

  • 1996: Dissertation "Selbständig lernende neuronale Steuerungen", TH Karlsruhe, PhD, 'summa cum laude'

  • 1992 - 1996: Research Assistant, University of Karlsruhe, research group Prof. Dr. Wolfram Menzel

  • 1986 - 1992: Computer science study, Technical University of Karlsruhe, degree Diplom Informatiker ('sehr gut')

Awards/ Prizes

  • 2007: RL Competition, Cart Pole, 1st place

  • 2007: Fbit, Jeju Island, South Korea, Best paper Award for 'Learning to Drive in 20 minutes'

  • 2006: Entry in the Visitor Book of the Government of Lower Saxony

  • 2006: Entry in the Golden Book of the city of Osnabrück

  • 2006: University of Osnabrück, prize for major research impact

  • 2003/2004: Univ. Dortmund, 2nd place Teaching Evaluation for "Introduction to AI"

  • RoboCup (Robotic Soccer) World Champion 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 [full table of placements]

Invited Talks / Keynote Speeches

  • 2019: Robotic Science and Systems (RSS), Keynote, Freiburg

  • 2018: European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning (EWRL), Keynote, Lille

  • 2016: RoboCup Symposium, Keynote, Leipzig

  • 2012: EWRL Workshop at ICML 2012, Keynote, Edinburgh

  • 2012: Honda, Offenburg

  • 2010: Internationaler Orthopedist Congress, Leipzig

  • 2009: Dies Academicus, University Konstanz

  • 2009: RoboCup Graz, Overview on MidSize League

  • 2006: Niedersächsische Landesvertretung, Soccer playing robots, Berlin

  • 2005: IGDA (International Game Developers Assoc), Frankfurt

  • 2005: Neurovisions, Interdisciplinary Forum Heidelberg

  • 2004: KI 2004, Ulm

  • 2004: Robotica 2004, Porto

  • 2004: GIBU-Meeting, Schloss Dagstuhl

  • 2004: Learning Workshop, Bielefeld

  • 2001: Eunite Workshop, Tenerife

  • 2001: Siemens Forum Munich

  • 2000: Siemens Forum Berlin

Organisation of scientific events

  • 2014: 7th Workshop on Guided-Self-Organisation, Freiburg (together w. Joschka Bödecker)

  • 2009: Dagstuhl Seminar Algorithmic Methods for Cooperative Distributed Systems (together with S. Feteke, Univ. Braunschweig, S. Fischer, U. Lübeck, Suri Subash, Univ. California)

  • 2006: Dagstuhl Seminar Multi-Robot Systems: Perception, Behaviors, Learning and Action (together with U. Schwiegelhohn, Univ. Dortmund, H.-D. Burkhard, HU Berlin, M. Veloso, CMU)

  • 2005: NIPS Conference, Workshop on RL Benchmarking, Vancouver

  • 2004: RoboCup Symposium as part of the World Championship in Lisbon

  • 2003: Organizing Chair Simulation League RoboCup World Championship in Padua

  • 2001: Organizing Committee Simulation League RoboCup World Championship in Seattle

Memberships in scientific institutions

  • Wissenschaftlicher Beirat Quantiom Bioinformatics (since 2002)

  • Trustee, RoboCup Federation (2008-2011)

  • German Sector RoboCup, Speaker Simulation League (2002-2011)

  • Executive Committee Member of RoboCup (2003-2007)

  • Speaker of AG Lernen, DFG-SPP 1125 (2000-2006)

  • VDI GMA Ausschuss Neuronale Netze und Evolutionaere Algorihmen (1996-2005)

Program Committees / Reviewing

  • Reviews for European Union and DFG (German Research Foundation)

  • Reviews for several journals, including: Neural Networks, Transaction on neural networks, Transactions on Robotics, Neuro Computing, IJNS, Transactions on Control and Cybernetics, …

  • Associate Editor/ Area Chair ICML 2009, ICRA 2009, IJCAI 2013

  • Program committee member for several annual conferences: IJCAI, NIPS, ICML, AAAI, AAMAS, ICRA, IROS, RoboCup Symposium, ECAI, IDA, …

Teaching courses at summer schools

  • 2009: Robot Learning Summer School, Lisbon

  • 2006: Reinforcement Learning, Interdisciplinary College Günne (IKG) (4 lectures)

  • 2005: Lecture on Reinforcement Learning for Control, UvA Amsterdam (1 lecture)

  • 2003: ACAI RoboCup Camp, Bremen (4 lectures)

  • 2002: European Summer School on Cooperative Robotics, Lisbon (4 lectures)

Former PhD Students