Latest News: I successfully defended my PhD in January 2024! For an in-depth look, check out my thesis and the presentation slides. I’m excited to continue my research journey as a Postdoc researcher at New York University, working with Prof. Ludovic Righetti in the Machines in Motion Laboratory.

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Hello! I am Joaquim Ortiz-Haro, a Postdoc researcher at New York University (NYU), working with Prof. Ludovic Righetti in the Machines in Motion Laboratory.

I recently completed my PhD in robotics at the Technical University of Berlin (TUB) under the supervision of Marc Toussaint in the research group Learning and Intelligent Systems. My research interests are in Task and Motion Planning, optimization, and deep learning for robotics.

I studied Mechanical Engineering (Bachelor) and Mathematics (Master) at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC, Barcelona). As an undergrad student, I worked on different projects ranging from convex optimization and machine learning to localization and mapping in robotics, in collaboration with Gergely Neu (UPF), Nicolas Mansard (LAAS-CNRS), Bharath Sankaran (Scaled Robotics), and Joan Solà (IRI).

Feel free to contact me if you are interested in collaborations or doing a MSc Thesis or research internship in our group. I am interested in projects on: A) merging nonlinear optimization and motion planning with supervised or reinforcement learning in robotics; B) closing the gap between task and motion planning and model predictive control.

Email: quimortiz21 (at) gmail (dot) com

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News

  • 05/2024 Three papers presented at ICRA 2024 in Japan! Mulit-robot motion planning, Effort Level Search and Solving Manipulation Puzzles.
  • 02/2024 Moved to New York to work as a postdoc researcher in the Machines in Motion Laboratory at New York University, led by Professor Ludovic Righetti.
  • 01/2024 I successfully defended my PhD and obtained the maximum qualification! Big thanks to my supervisor Marc Toussaint (TU Berlin) and the doctoral committee: Tomas Lozano-Perez (MIT), and Georg Martius (Uni Tübingen).
  • 11/2023 New journal submission! Fast and optimal kinodynamic motion planning with iterative search and trajectory optimization. Preprint , video, and code.
  • 05/2023 Heading to ICRA 2023 to present our latest work in robotic manipulation planning!
  • 01/2023 I presented my research at the robotics/AI seminars of IRI and UPF (Barcelona). Thanks to my former supervisors Gergely Neu and Joan Sola for the opportunity!
  • 11/2022 I spent one month visiting Erez Karpas at Technion (Israel). I gave a talk in the robotics seminar and met fellow robotics PhD students and faculty.
  • 10/2022 4 Papers presented at IROS, thanks to all students and collaborators!
  • 06/2022 Journal Paper accepted at IEEE-RAL. Check the project website.
  • 02/2022 Conference Paper accepted at ICAPS. Great opportunity to learn classical AI Planning with Erez Karpas and Michael Katz.
  • 10/2021 Attending CoRL, my first in-person conference! Check out our paper.
  • 10/2021 Talk in the Robotics Seminar of Gepetto team at LAAS-CNRS. Thanks to my Msc Supervisor Nicolas Mansard for the invitation!
  • 01/2021 First Paper accepted. I will present at ICRA 2022.
  • 09/2019 I have started a PhD in robotics at Uni-Stuttgart and IMPRS-IS, under the supervision of Marc Toussaint. Update - together with my advisor, we moved to TU-Berlin on March 2020.
  • 07/2019 I spent 5 months doing research about Optimal Transport and convex optimization, UPF (Barcelona).
  • 02/2019 Master of Mathematics at FME UPC (Barcelona).
  • 02/2019 Master thesis about numerical optimal control for legged robots, LAAS-CNRS (Toulouse).
  • 07/2018 I spent the last 6 months working in the startup Scaled Robotics.
  • 06/2017 Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering at ETSEIB UPC (Barcelona), graduated with top-class honours.
  • 06/2017 Bachelor thesis about SLAM with event based cameras, IRI (Barcelona).