Welcome to the website of the Learning and Intelligent Systems research lab at TU Berlin, led by Prof. Marc Toussaint. The lab is part of EECS Faculty of TU Berlin, as well as the Science Of Intelligence cluster of excellence.

This site hosts our publications, teaching information for students, and recent talks given in our lab seminar.

For general questions, please contact office@lis.tu-berlin.de.

If you are looking for the Intelligent Multi-Robot Coordination Lab of Wolfgang Hönig, please follow this link.

Research

Our research interests are in the intersection of AI and robotics. We believe that a key in understanding and creating strongly generalizing intelligence is the interplay of learning and reasoning, of data-based and model-based decision making. Our research therefore bridges between AI reasoning, optimization, and machine learning to tackle fundamental problems in robotics. Concrete research topics we work on are models and algorithms for physical reasoning, task-and-motion planning (logic-geometric programming), learning heuristics, the planning-as-inference paradigm, algorithms and methods for robotic building construction, and learning to transfer model-based strategies to reactive and adaptive real-world behavior. To this end, we build on methodologies from optimization, reinforcement learning, machine learning, search, planning, and probabilistic inference.

Team

Marc Toussaint
(Group Leader)

Ilaria Cicchetti-Nilsson
(Administration)

Sayantan Auddy
(postdoc)

Cornelius Braun
(PhD candidate)

Svetlana Levit
(PhD candidate)

Hongyou Zhou
(PhD candidate)

Shiping Ma
(PhD candidate)

Christian Henkel
(external PhD candidate)

Camille Phiquepal
(external PhD candidate)

Cen You Li
(external PhD candidate)

Alumni

Matthias Bitzer
(role back then: PhD, finished 2024)

Danny Driess
(role back then: PhD, finished 2024)

Valentin Hartmann
(role back then: PhD, finished 2024)

Joaquim Ortiz-Haro
(role back then: PhD, finished 2024)

Ingmar Schubert
(role back then: PhD, finished 2024)

Yoojin Oh
(role back then: PhD, finished 2023)

Philipp Kratzer
(role back then: PhD, finished 2022)

Jung-Su Ha
(role back then: postdoc, finished 2022)

Andreas Orthey
(role back then: postdoc, finished 2021)

Sabrina Schmedding
(role back then: PhD, finished 2021)

Andreas Doerr
(role back then: PhD, finished 2021)

Ozgur S. Oguz
(role back then: postdoc, finished 2021)

Jim Mainprice
(role back then: teamlead, finished 2021)

Jens Schreiter
(role back then: PhD, finished 2020)

Robert Lieck
(role back then: PhD, finished 2018)

Peter Englert
(role back then: PhD, finished 2018)

Johannes Kulick
(role back then: PhD, finished 2017)

Ruth Schulz
(role back then: postdoc, finished 2017)

Ngo Anh Vien
(role back then: teamlead, finished 2017)

Duy Nguyen-Tuong
(role back then: lecturer, finished 2016)

Nathan Ratliff
(role back then: postdoc, finished 2016)

Dmitry Zarubin
(role back then: PhD, finished 2014)

Stanimir Dragiev
(role back then: PhD, finished 2014)

Konrad Rawlik
(role back then: PhD, finished 2013)

Nikolay Jetchev
(role back then: PhD, finished 2012)

Tobias Lang
(role back then: PhD, finished 2011)

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