Tim Welschehold

Dr. Tim Welschehold is a Junior Research Group Leader and former Substitute Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Freiburg, Germany. He is affiliated with the Faculty of Engineering and conducts research in the Robot Learning Lab and Autonomous Intelligent Systems group. He completed his PhD in Computer Science under Prof. Wolfram Burgard and has held senior research and leadership roles since 2020.

Research Interests: His work centers on reinforcement learning, imitation learning, mobile manipulation, and dynamical systems. He explores how robots can learn complex manipulation tasks from human demonstrations and improve autonomy through deep learning and adaptive policies. His research integrates perception, reasoning, and action for real-world robotic applications.

The recent publications highlight a strong trend in mobile manipulation, with a focus on learning from demonstrations, uncertainty-aware perception, and task-driven co-design of robotic systems. His work frequently appears in top-tier robotics conferences such as ICRA, IROS, CoRL, and RA-L, often in collaboration with Prof. Abhinav Valada and other members of the Freiburg robotics community.

Scientific Awards:

• Best Paper Award, IROS 2022 Workshop on Mobile Manipulation and Embodied Intelligence

Advising and Grants: Dr. Welschehold has co-supervised several Master’s students, including Abdelrahman Younes, Erick Rosete-Beas, and Iman Nematollahi. His research has been supported by major funding bodies such as the German Research Foundation (DFG), NVIDIA, Toyota Motor Europe, and the Carl Zeiss Foundation through projects like ReScale and BrainLinks-BrainTools.

Labs and Teams: He is a key member of the Robot Learning Lab and the Autonomous Intelligent Systems group at the University of Freiburg, contributing to projects such as OpenDR, OML, and ReScale, which aim to advance scalable and responsible learning for assistive robotics.