Oliver Kroemer

Oliver Kroemer is an Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute (RI), affiliated with the Intelligent Autonomous Manipulation (IAM) Lab. His research focuses on enabling robots to learn versatile manipulation skills through lifelong frameworks, with applications in elder care, environmental maintenance, and hazardous operations.

• Developed methods for robot learning via physical interaction and reinforcement learning
• Created representations for contact states and motor primitives to improve skill generalization

Research Interests: Spanning robot learning, tactile sensing, force-velocity control, and lifelong skill acquisition. Projects include Agile and Dynamic Interactions for Mobile Manipulation and Integrated Planning and Learning (Pillar project).

Scientific Awards:

• Finalist, Georges Giralt Ph.D. Award (2015)

Education:

• Masters & Bachelors in Engineering, University of Cambridge (2008)
• Ph.D., Technische Universitaet Darmstadt (2014)

Students & Affiliates:
Current PhD: Mark Lee, Sarvesh Patil, Saumya Saxena, Yunus Seker, Zilin Si
Past PhD: Alex LaGrassa, Tabitha Lee, Qiao Liang, Shivam Vats, Kevin Zhang