| Andreas J. Häusler—Curriculum Vitae | |||||||||
| (This is the hyperlink-enriched HTML version of my CV; a PDF version neatly formatted with LaTeX is also available for download.) | |||||||||
| Personal Data | |||||||||
| Name | Andreas J. Häusler | ||||||||
| Born | November 16th, 1980 in Munich (Germany) | ||||||||
| Nationality | German | ||||||||
| Maritial Status | Married to Melanie Häusler, née Blomenhofer | ||||||||
| One daughter | |||||||||
| Title | Dipl.-Inf. Univ. (German degree, equivalent to MSc.) | ||||||||
| Contact Information | |||||||||
| a.haeusler@informagic.org | |||||||||
| Homepage | http://www.informagic.org | ||||||||
| Affiliation | |||||||||
| Institute | Dynamical Systems and Ocean Robotics Lab (DSOR) | ||||||||
| Address | Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica Instituto Superior Técnico, Torre Norte – Piso 8 Avenida Rovisco Pais, No1 1049-001 Lisboa Portugal | ||||||||
| Office | 8.17 | ||||||||
| Telephone | 00351-21-841-8088 | ||||||||
| Fax | 00351-21-841-8291 | ||||||||
| ahaeusler@isr.ist.utl.pt | |||||||||
| Homepage | http://welcome.isr.ist.utl.pt/labs/dsor/people/index.asp?accao=showpeople&id_people=238 | ||||||||
| Scientific Interests | |||||||||
| Path and Trajectory Generation and Optimization Planning Tools for Multiple Autonomous Robots Mission Planning and On-Line Replanning Autonomous Marine Vehicles Autonomous Robotics Sea Exploration | |||||||||
| Publications | |||||||||
| ⇒ ⇒ ⇒ ⇒ | Please see my list of publications on http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~ahaeusler! | ||||||||
| Education (earned degrees) | |||||||||
| Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), Munich (Germany) | |||||||||
| Sept. 2006 | Graduation in Computer Science; grade 1.2 (on a scale from 1.0 to 5.0, where 1.0 is best—please see also my Diplom (german), Prüfungszeugnis (german), Diploma (english), Examination Certificate (english) or the Diploma Supplement (english)) | ||||||||
| May 2003 – Sept. 2006 | Hauptstudium (MSc. level), Computer Science Main focus on robotics and theoretical computer science with minor subject “Logic and Theory of Science” | ||||||||
| Oct. 2001 – April 2003 | Grundstudium (BSc. level), Computer Science Completed with intermediate exam, grade 1.6 | ||||||||
| Academic Experience | |||||||||
| Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisbon (Portugal) | |||||||||
| Aug. 2010 – present | Ph.D. Student Task: Multiple Marine Vehicle Path and Mission Planning Supervisors: Prof. António Pascoal, PhD, Prof. John Hauser, PhD, and Prof. Pedro Aguiar, PhD | ||||||||
| Aug. 2007 – July 2010 | Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher Task: Cooperative Marine Vehicle Naviagation within the FreeSUBNet-Project of the European Communitiy Supervisor: Prof. António Pascoal, PhD | ||||||||
| Technische Universität München (TUM), Garching (Germany) | |||||||||
| Feb. 2007 – Aug. 2007 | Research Assistant Task: General work in the fields of Reinforcement Learning, Neural Nets and Artificial Evolution Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Schmidhuber | ||||||||
| Technische Universität München (TUM), Garching (Germany) | |||||||||
| Sept. 2006 – Jan. 2007 | Research Internship Task: Learning the Physical Dynamics for a 6 DOF Robot Arm Supervisors: Prof. Michael Beetz, PhD; Alexis Maldonado, Dipl. Eng. | ||||||||
| Feb. 2006 – May 2006 | Student Assistant Task: Providing assistance in the development of a software for automatic player tracking in soccer videos Supervisor: Prof. Michael Beetz, PhD | ||||||||
| Aug. 2005 – Jan. 2006 | Diploma Thesis Title: Designing Libriaries of Transparent, General and Restartable Plans for a Simulated Autonomous Service Robot Supervisors: Prof. Michael Beetz, PhD; Armin Müller, Dipl. Inf. Content: The research covered the design of plan libraries for a simulated robot acting in a kitchen environment. A great emphasis had been put on generality and restartability as well as robustness of the activity plans. The thesis has been graded with 1.0. | ||||||||
| Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), Munich (Germany) | |||||||||
| Sept. 2006 – Jan. 2007 | Research Internship Task: Schema-Based Rewriting of XML Queries Supervisors: Prof. Dr. François Bry; Sacha Berger, Dipl. Inf.; Tim Furche, Dipl. Inf. | ||||||||
| March 2003 – July 2003 | Student Assistant Task: Supporting exercise groups of students and grading their homeworks and exams within the scope of a lecture about formal languages, automata theory, theory of computing and complexity theory Supervisors: Prof. Dr. François Bry; Dr. Norbert Eisinger | ||||||||
| Professional Experience | |||||||||
| msg systems ag, Ismaning (Germany) (The msg systems ag is a 2.000 person company specialized in the development of standard software for insurance companies.) | |||||||||
| July 2002 – Feb. 2005 | Student Trainee Tasks: General assistance in programming and software analysis; within this scope four projects on own responsibility: | ||||||||
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| Project Memberships | |||||||||
| April 2011 – present | CONAV (Projekt financed by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnología (FCT))
Task: Development of a mission planning tool for a new type of autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) | ||||||||
| Feb. 2009 – present | Co3-AUVs (European project of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), targeted at human-robot interaction under water)
Task: Extensively test recent results in multiple AUV path planning, taking into account various mission-relevant constraints. | ||||||||
| Aug. 2007 – July 2010 | FREEsubNET (European project of the FP6, targeted at the development of intervention AUVs)
Task: Addressing the topic of multiple AUV path and mission planning; furthemore
task leader role for Task 3.4, “Algorithms and sensor integration for vehicle
and target positioning”. | ||||||||
| April 2008 – Nov. 2009 | GREX (European project of the FP6, targeted towards multiple AUV missions in heterogeneous vessel networks)
Task: Responsible for some of the software modules for hardware-in-loop simulation during sea trials. | ||||||||
| Sept 2006 – Jan. 2007 | CoTeSys (Cluster of Excellence at the Technical University of Munich)
Task: Implementing the inverse kinematics for a robot arm with six degrees of freedom. | ||||||||
| Sept 2006 – Jan. 2007 | REWERSE (European project of the FP6, targeted towards semantic web query languages)
Task: Schema-based rewriting of XML queries in the scope of schema-based knowledge systems. | ||||||||
| Awarded Scholarships | |||||||||
| June 2011 | Travel and lodging scholarship of the German Scholars Organization (GSO) for participation at the 2011 “Building Bridges” conference. | ||||||||
| April 2011 – present | Bolseiro da Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnología (FCT) (The FCT is a nation-wide Portuguese science foundation that, among other tasks, provides scholarships for PhD students and finances scientific projects in all areas.)
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| Aug. 2007 – July 2010 | Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher within the Marie Curie Research Training Network (MC-RTN) FREEsubNET of the European Union under the 6th Framework Programme (FP6). | ||||||||
| Special Abilities | |||||||||
| Certifications | |||||||||
| Sun certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform 1.4 | |||||||||
| ODAV Certification “Networks for end users and system administrators” | |||||||||
| Languages | |||||||||
| German (native speaker) | |||||||||
| English (fluent) | |||||||||
| Portuguese (working knowledge) | |||||||||
| Hawaiian (absolute beginner) | |||||||||
| Memberships | |||||||||
| Jan. 2003 – present | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), student member | ||||||||
| Sept. 2006 – present | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), student member | ||||||||
| Extracurricular | |||||||||
| Sept. 1987 – present | Music lessons (trumpet, later also trombone); member of various musical groups, among others the “Tölzer Stadtkapelle” (marching band of the city of Bad Tölz) under the direction of Josef Kronwitter and the Symphonic Orchestra of the Munich University of Applied Sciences (FHM) under the direction of Prof. Dr. Theodor Schmitt. In the scope of these activities gained cultural experience through foreign visits in Japan (2001, 2004), USA (2002), Italy (2003) and Poland (2004). | ||||||||
| Dec. 2006 | Bronze and silver certifications of the Musical Federation of Upper and Lower Bavaria (MON) on the trumpet, both with grade 1.0 | ||||||||
| Feb. 2010 – present | Accountant for the board of elders of the German Lutheran church in Lisbon (DEKL). | ||||||||
| Mai 2009 – present | Founding member of the church brass band of the DEKL. | ||||||||
| Hobbies and other Activities | |||||||||
| Playing the trumpet and trombone | |||||||||
| Reading, writing poems and short stories | |||||||||
| Natural bodybuilding and sport cycling | |||||||||
| Playing board games | |||||||||
| Travelling around Portugal | |||||||||
last update 2011/07/28 | |||||||||
Links: Curriculum Vitae, Publications | |||||||||