Puze Liu

Puze Liu is a Senior Research Scientist & Deputy Head at the Systems AI for Robot Learning (SAIROL) group within the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). He earned his Ph.D. from the Intelligent Autonomous Systems group at Technische Universität Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt), supervised by Prof. Jan Peters.

Research Interests

• Robotics
• Robot Learning
• Safe Reinforcement Learning
• Control and Optimization
• Human-Robot Interaction
• Machine Learning

Recent Publications focus on safe reinforcement learning, constraint manifold theory, and real-world robotic applications, with papers accepted at ICML 2025, RSS 2025, CoRL 2024, and T-RO 2024. His work addresses safety in high-dimensional robotic tasks and real-time motion planning under constraints.

Scientific Awards

• IROS Student Travel Award (2022)
• Best Paper Award Finalist at CoRL 2021
• Best Entertainment and Amusement Paper Award Finalist at IROS 2021
• Selected as R:SS Pioneers 2025

Collaborations include work with researchers like Jan Peters, Davide Tateo, and Kuo Zhang, focusing on robotics safety, exploration algorithms, and practical implementations for manipulation, navigation, and interaction tasks.