- Jean Pierre Allamaa (autonomous vehicle control),
- Renzi Wang (interaction-aware MPC),
- Ahmed Ahmed (graph attention network - as external committee), and
- Flavia Sofia Acerbo earlier this year (learning from demonstrations).
All of them are very talented, hard working, and driven to bring scientific works into applications. It has been a true pleasure to follow their PhD journeys (and sometimes contribute with my industrial perspectives :). Especially with Jean-Pierre and Flavia, whom I’ve had the chance to work with from beginning, Master’s theses in the company to industrial PhDs. Watching their daily work, growth, and development into exceptional individuals has been a great experience.
No surprise all already had nice job offers and now taking on new interesting challenges after completing their PhDs.
Also, many thanks to our academic partners for their trust and collaboration with Siemens during these innovative research activities: Prof. Jan Swevers, Prof. Panagiotis (Panos) Patrinos, Prof. Tinne Tuytelaars (KU Leuven), and Dr. Ali Anwar, Prof. Siegfried Mercelis - IDLab (UAntwerp - imec).
Finally, I would encourage you to check their nicely written thesis books:
- Embedded Learning and Optimization for Autonomous Vehicle Control (Jean-Pierre)
- Learning from Demonstrations for Human-Like Autonomous Driving: A Differentiable Optimal Control Approach (Flavia)
- Embedded learning and optimization for interaction-aware Model Predictive Control (Renzi)
- Distributed collaborative perception using graph attention networks in intelligent transportation systems (Ahmed)