Christian Rauch

Christian Rauch is a Researcher at the Chair of Cyber-Physical-Systems at the Technical University of Leoben and a Research Scientist at Bosch Corporate Research. He earned his Ph.D. in Robotics and Autonomous Systems from the University of Edinburgh in 2020 and has over a decade of experience in applying machine learning to robotic perception and manipulation in unstructured environments.

• Primary Affiliation: Technical University of Leoben (Chair of Cyber-Physical-Systems)
• Secondary Affiliation: Bosch Corporate Research (Robot Learning group)
• Education: Ph.D. in Robotics and Autonomous Systems (University of Edinburgh, 2020)

Research Interests

• Machine Learning applications for robotic systems
• Robot Learning with focus on Foundation Models
• Robot Vision for manipulation tasks
• Perception and manipulation in industrial/domestic contexts

Open-Source Contributions

• Developed super_point_inference (C++ implementation of SuperPoint inference)
• Created MultiMotionFusion (motion modeling for object manipulation)
• Maintained rgbd_export and torch_cpp tools

Academic Activities

• Teaching: "Introduction to Machine Learning" (190.018), CPS Research Seminar (190.003)
• Location: Franz-Josef-Straße 18, 8700 Leoben, Austria
• Contact: +43 3842 402–1908 | Christian.Rauch@unileoben.ac.at