CV

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Education

PhD Robotics
TU-Berlin (Germany), IMPRS-IS (Max Planck Research School)
2019-Expected 2023
MSc Mathematics
UPC (Polytechnic university Catalonia, Barcelona)
2017-2019
BSc Mechanical Eng.
UPC (Polytechnic university Catalonia, Barcelona)
2013-2017

Experience

PhD Student
International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS-IS) and TU-Berlin. Sep. 2019 - Present.
Nonlinear optimization and learning for robotics. Tentative thesis title: Efficient Sampling for Robotic Sequential Manipulation. Supervisor: Marc Toussaint

Graduate Student Researcher
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. Mar. 2019 - July 2019.
Optimal Transport in Machine Learning and Statistics. Research Report: A proximal formulation of regularized optimal transport. Supervisor: Gergely Neu.

Graduate Research Assistant
LAAS-CNRS. Sep. 2018 - Feb. 2019.
Interface of numerical optimization, optimal control for robotics. Master Thesis Simultaneous trajectory and contact optimization with an augmented Lagrangian Algortihm. Supervisors: Nicolas Mansard, Justin Carpentier.

Robotics Engineer Intern
Scaled Robotics, Barcelona. Jan. 2018 – July 2018.
Geometric and semantic analysis of 3D Point Clouds in robotics start-up.

Undergraduate Research Assistant
IRI - Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial, CSIC-UPC. Feb. 2017 – Nov. 2017.
Simulateneous localisation and mapping (SLAM). Bachelor Thesis: Parallel Tracking and Mapping Algorithms for an Event Based Camera. Supervisor: Joan Solà

Teacher Assistant
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Feb. 2015 – July 2017.
Teaching mathematics to first year university students. Classes with big groups (around 20 students) in the blackboard.

Languages

Catalan
Spanish
English
German
French

Skills

Research
Robotics (Motion Planning, Task and Motion Planning, Optimal Control)
Nonlinear Optimization
Deep Learning (Supervised Learning, Generative Models)
Programming
C++ (Robotics Research)
Python (Numpy, Pytorch)
Matlab
Latex

Selected Publications

Full list of publications. Google scholar profile

J. Ortiz-Haro and E. Karpas and M. Katz and M. Toussaint
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2022
Joaquim Ortiz-Haro, Jung-Su Ha, Danny Driess, Marc Toussaint
5th Annual Conference on Robot Learning (CORL), 2021