Dr.-Ing Stefan Sosnowski
Technische Universität München
Tel +49 89 289 25726
Room: 0305.04.505
E-Mail: sosnowski@tum.de
Postal address TUEIITR Chair of Information-oriented Control (Prof. Hirche)
80333 München, Barerstr. 21/IV (Informationstechnische Regelung)
Research
My research develops reliable learning-based control — methods that learn from data while preserving formal guarantees of safety, stability, and optimality, so that autonomous systems can act dependably even where models are imperfect and conditions are adverse. The methodological core combines learning tractable representations of nonlinear dynamics (Koopman operator theory, Gaussian-process and kernel models), preserving physical structure (variational integrators, control barrier functions, contact dynamics), and active, information-driven data acquisition. These methods are put to work in cooperative, heterogeneous robot teams deployed for environmental sustainability: the EU projects SeaClear and SeaClear2.0, which coordinate underwater, surface, and aerial vehicles to detect and collect marine litter, and the ecoBay project, where an autonomous surface vehicle performs AI-driven adaptive monitoring of freshwater biodiversity in Bavarian lakes.
Awards & Recognitions
- Sustainability leadership recognition in robotics, European Robotics Forum
- IAPH Sustainability award for project SeaClear
- Best paper awards and finalist mentions at ICRA, ICSR, IJCAI, MCMC
Education
Stefan Sosnowski is currently postdoc at the Institute for Information-oriented Control, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany. From 2007 to 2013 he has been research assistant at the Institute for Information-oriented Control and the Institute of Automatic Control Engineering, TUM.
He received his PhD (Dr.-Ing.) with highest distinction from TUM in 2014.
He received the diploma engineer degree (Dipl.-Ing.) in Electrical Engineering in 2007 from the Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany. Stefan's diploma thesis was carried out at the Distributed Robotics Laboratory, MIT, Boston, USA, within the AMOUR (Autonomous Modular Optical Underwater Robot) project.
He received the bachelor of science degree (B.Sc.) in Electrical Engineering in 2005 from the Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany. Stefan's bachelor thesis was carried out at the Institute of Automatic Control Engineering, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany. His thesis was on human-robot interaction, focusing on synthesizing and displaying emotions.
External theses
I am coordinating all external theses (Bachelor / Master) at ITR. See our external thesis info page for details about your application.
Apparently, I have an Erdös number of 4:
Erdös -> Noga Alon -> Erik Demain -> Daniela Rus -> me
