Internships / research assistantships

I currently cannot offer any such positions for external BSc or MSc students.

BSc projects

I will no longer accept TU Delft students. Information for University of Stuttgart coming soon.

MSc projects

I will no longer accept TU Delft students. Information for University of Stuttgart coming soon.

Ongoing

Completed

Myrthe van Vierzen “Interactive Imitation Learning for Robotic Tomato Picking using a Generalist Robot Policy”
Mentors: Zhaoting Li (TU Delft), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Georgios Sotirchos “Search Inspired Exploration for Reinforcement Learning”
Mentors: Zlatan Ajanović (RWTH Aachen), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Mees van der Lecq “A Novel Approach to Mechanical Tracker Calibration for Surgical Navigation: On-Site Artefact-Based Calibration and Validation”
Mentors: Tom van Riet (AUMC), Ruud Schreurs (AUMC), Naomi Rood (AUMC), Willem Momma (AUMC), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Manupriya Singh “Optical Flow Estimation using SPECK™ Neuromorphic Hardware”
Mentors: Dequan Ou (TU Delft), Guido de Croon (TU Delft), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Karthik Biju Nair “ADP3: Affordance-Guided Generalizable Visuomotor Policies through 3D Action Diffusion”
Mentors: Jeyhoon Maskani (NEURA Robotics), Milad Malekzadeh (NEURA Robotics), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Max Owusu “Improving Thermal Anomaly Detection Using Robot Pose Conditioning”
Mentors: Yuri van Warmerdam (Alliander), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Mees Jansen “Learning-Driven Torque Control for Skid-Steer Robots - Knowledge-Assisted Reinforcement Learning with Curriculum-Based System Identification for Trajectory Control”
Mentors: Joris Sijs (Avular), Hans Goosen (TU Delft), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Rick Buijvoets “Development of a measurement system for wafer-level measurements”
Mentors: Gerard Dunning (Flexous), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Willem Kolff “Sensor Calibration using a Directional Trained Deep Neural Network”
Mentors: Tom van Riet (AUMC), Maaike Beuling (AUMC), Dimitra Dodou (TU Delft), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Aakaash Radhoe “Graph-Enhanced Optimal Transport: Leveraging Structural Features for Plant Matching”
Mentors: Giovanni Franzese (TU Delft), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Renee Schwietert “Improved Generalization for Behavioral Cloning with Image-Based Feature Sets”
Mentors: Arkady Zgonnikov (TU Delft), Peter van Vliet (Porsche), Siwei Ju (Porsche), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Pengzhi Yang “Task-Unaware Lifelong Robot Learning with Retrieval-based Weighted Local Adaptation”
Mentors: Cong Wang (TU Delft), Frans A. Oliehoek (TU Delft), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Evert De Vroey “Lifelong Learning for a Kresling Origami Robot: A Plug-and-Play Module for Supervised Learning of Target Adaptations”
Mentor: Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Amber M. van Groenestijn “Investigating Theory of Mind Capabilities in Multimodal Large Language Models”
Mentors: Chirag Raman (TU Delft), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Paul H. Féry “Toward Occlusion Capable Human Trajectory Prediction: Facilitating occlusion capability at the prediction stage of perception, with a TransFormer based trajectory prediction model”
Mentors: Anna Mészáros (TU Delft), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Runyu Ma “Language-Guided Semantic Affordance Exploration for Efficient Reinforcement Learning”
Mentors: Zlatan Ajanović (RWTH Aachen), Jelle Luijkx (TU Delft), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Anish Diwan “Noise-conditioned Energy-based Annealed Rewards (NEAR): A Generative Framework for Imitation Learning from Observation”
Mentors: Julen Urain (TU Darmstadt), Jan Peters (TU Darmstadt), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Jasper van Leuven “A Data Augmentation Pipeline: Leveraging Controllable Diffusion Models and Automotive Simulation Software”
Mentors: Son Tong (Siemens Digital Industries Software), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Maarten Hugenholtz “Mode Collapse Happens: Evaluating Critical Interactions in Joint Trajectory Prediction Models”
Mentors: Anna Mészáros (TU Delft), Zlatan Ajanović (TU Delft), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Rafaël Beckers “Learning Generalizable Robot Manipulation Skills with Object Hierarchy”
Mentors: Zlatan Ajanović (TU Delft), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Fernando Corte Vargas “Designing Emotionally Expressive Behaviors for an Appearance-Constrained Robot”
Mentors: Joost Broekens (Leiden University), Bernhard Hilpert (Leiden University), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Willem Momma “Towards Navigation for Surgical Robotics: Developing a Surgical Robotic Navigation System for the Human Skull”
Mentors: Tom van Riet (AUMC), Ruud Schreurs (AUMC), Naomi Rood (AUMC), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Amin Berjaoui Tahmaz “Variable Stiffness Control for Sequential Contact Tasks”
Mentors: Ravi Prakash (TU Delft), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Lourens Zuiker “Predicting Propeller Behaviour Using Machine Learning”
Mentors: Jop Paauw (Boskalis), Willem de Graaf (Boskalis), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Mariano Ramírez Montero “Learning Task Parameterised Dynamical Systems with Gaussian Process Regression and Classification”
Mentors: Giovanni Franzese (TU Delft), Leandro de Souza Rosa (TU Delft), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Alexander Keijzer “Prioritizing states with action sensitive return in experience replay”
Mentors: Bas van der Heijden (TU Delft), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Gijs van den Brandt “Experimental Validation of Reference-Spreading-Based Impact-Aware Manipulation for Dual-Arm Robot Grabbing”
Mentors: Jari van Steen (TU/e), Alessandro Saccon (TU/e), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Zheyu Du “Teaching bimanual dexterous manipulations with interactive demonstrations and reinforcement learning”
Mentors: Giovanni Franzese (TU Delft), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Jianyong Sun “Learning from Few Demonstrations with Frame-Weighted Motion Generation”
Mentors: Jihong Zhu (TU Delft), Michael Gienger (HRIeu), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Yulei Qiu “Wrinkle direction detection and its application on robotic cloth wrinkle removal”
Mentors: Jihong Zhu (TU Delft), Michael Gienger (HRIeu), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Lars van der Lely “Linear State-Space System Identification for Automatic Greenhouse Climate Control”
Mentors: Manuel Mazo (TU Delft), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Bram Bornhijm “Motion Primitive Recognition in Tooth Removal Surgery”
Mentors: Tom van Riet (AMC), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Yurui Du “Learning from Demonstrations of Critical Driving Behaviours Using Driver’s Risk Field”
Mentors: Son Tong (Siemens Digital Industries Software), Flavia Sofia Acerbo (Siemens Digital Industries Software), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Besim Bay “Learning object-object affordances for placement-position prediction in an item packing task”
Mentors: Ravi Prakash (TU Delft), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Rudy De-Xin de Lange “Incremental Adaptation of Behaviour Trees for Applications in Learning from Demonstration Frameworks”
Mentors: Dimitris Karageorgos (HIT), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Annemarijn Haasdijk “The Quasi-Online Algorithm in a Robot Packing Environment: Implementation of an Improved Bin Packing Algorithm”
Mentors: Sergio Grammatico (TU Delft), Tim Biemans (Picnic), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Sven Uitendaal “Teaching Robots Impact Tasks by Performing Demonstrations”
Mentors: Alessandro Saccon (TU/e), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Dirk-Jan Boonstra “Learning to estimate the proximity of slip using high-resolution tactile sensing”
Mentors: Jelle Luijkx (TU Delft), Jens Kober (TU Delft), Michaël Wiertlewski (TU Delft)

Irene Lopez Bosque “Towards Corrective Deep Imitation Learning in Data Intensive Environments: Helping robots to learn faster by leveraging human knowledge”
Mentors: Rodrigo Perez Dattari (TU Delft), Carlos Celemin (TU Delft), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Armin Avaei “Learning Human Preferences for Motion Planning in Robotic Manipulation”
Mentors: Linda van der Spaa (TU Delft), Jens Kober (TU Delft), Luka Peternel (TU Delft)

Karthik Arvind Arunmoli “Data efficient pick location learning from images for sequential tasks”
Mentors: Rodrigo Perez Dattari (TU Delft), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

David ter Kuile “Handling the unknown: Towards on-the-job object recognition”
Mentors: Osama Mazhar (TU Delft), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Chia-Yu Tsai “Wrinkle contraction direction: a useful feature for learning robotic fabric manipulation from demonstration”
Mentors: Jihong Zhu (TU Delft), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Lalith Keerthan Suresh Kumar “Learning Task Space Policies from Demonstration”
Mentors: Carlos Celemin (TU Delft), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Bram Harleman “Automated modelling of traffic signal controller behaviour from floating car data using Hidden semi-Markov Models: Paving the way for large scale implementation of Green Light Optimal Speed Advisory systems”
Mentors: Andreas Hegyi (TU Delft), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Evelyn D'Elia “Automatic Controller Selection on a Humanoid Robot: Using Optimization Techniques”
Mentors: Serena Ivaldi (INRIA), Jean-Baptiste Mouret (INRIA), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Yen-Lin Wu “One Pose Fits All: A novel kinematic approach to 3D human pose estimation”
Mentors: Osama Mazhar (TU Delft), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Anna Mészáros “Teaching Robots How to Grasp Like Humans by Humans: An Interactive Approach”
Mentors: Giovanni Franzese (TU Delft), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Niels Lander “Interactive Imitation Learning for Force Control”
Mentors: Carlos Celemin (TU Delft), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Ibrahim Chahine “Bayesian Deep Learning for Dynamic System Identification”
Mentors: Wei Pan (TU Delft), Hongpeng Zhou (TU Delft), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Bart Bootsma “Learning Interactively to Resolve Ambiguity in Sensor Policy Fusion for Robot”
Mentors: Giovanni Franzese (TU Delft), Réka Bérci-Hajnovics (DoBots), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Nathan Timmers “Simulating Gait with the 3R60 Knee Prosthesis and a Control Moment Gyroscope”
Mentors: Saher Jabeen (TU Delft), Heike Vallery (TU Delft), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Arthur Helsloot “Symbolic Reasoning about Unseen Objects from Multimodal Sensory Feedback for Manipulation”
Mentors: Mert Imre (TU Delft), Carlos Hernandez Corbato (TU Delft), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Willem de Graaf “Understanding Tooth Removal Procedures using Feature Engineering and Classification Models”
Mentors: Jens Kober (TU Delft), Tom van Riet (AMC)

Peter Valletta “Uncertainty-based Interactive Machine Learning”
Mentors: Rodrigo Perez Dattari (TU Delft), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Olav Jacobs “Cooperative Robotic Arms for Parcel Picking”
Mentors: Jan-Willem Damsteeg (PrimeVision), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Snehal Jauhri “Interactive Learning in State-space: Enabling robots to learn from non-expert humans”
Mentors: Carlos Celemin (TU Delft), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Sjouke de Zwart “Impact-Aware Learning from Demonstration”
Mentors: Alessandro Saccon (TU/e), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Julian Freiherr von der Goltz “Classification of Damages on Aircraft Inspection Images Using Convolutional Neural Networks”
Mentors: Wei Pan (TU Delft), Jochem Verboom (Mainblades Inspections), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Thijs Greevink “Prioritized Experience Replay based on the Wasserstein Metric in Deep Reinforcement Learning”
Mentors: Tim de Bruin (TU Delft), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Jan Scholten “Deep Reinforcement Learning with Feedback-based Exploration”
Mentors: Carlos Celemin (TU Delft), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Daan Wout “Policy Learning with Human Teachers - Using directive feedback in a Gaussian framework”
Mentors: Carlos Celemin (TU Delft), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Mart Beeftink “Learning Kinematic Models using a Single Tele-Demonstration”
Mentors: Ewout Arkenbout (HIT), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Konstantinos Kokkalis “LMI-based Stability Analysis for Learning Control”
Mentors: Sebastian Trimpe (MPI-IS), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Sathish Krishnamoorthi “Model-Based Compensation for Serial Manipulators through Semi-Parametric Gaussian Process Regression”
Mentors: Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Martijn Kist “Development of sway reduction control for the Jacket Lift System of Pioneering Spirit”
Mentors: Niels Mallon (Allseas), Marijn Dijk (Allseas), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Bart Keulen “Smart Start: A Directed and Persistent Exploration Framework for Reinforcement Learning”
Mentors: Jerry Pratt (IHMC), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Wuyang Duan “Learning State Representations for Robotic Control - Information Disentangling and Multi-modal Learning”
Mentor: Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Jovana Radojevic “Cooperative Visual Object Learning”
Mentors: Lydia Fischer (HRIeu), Heiko Wersing (HRIeu), Stephan Hasler (HRIeu), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Divyam Rastogi “Deep Reinforcement Learning for Bipedal Robots”
Mentors: Ivan Koryakovskiy (TU Delft), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Nikol Guljelmovic “Task Parameter Inference in Human-Robot Interaction”
Mentors: Martijn Zeestraten (IIT), Sylvain Calinon (IIT), Jens Kober (TU Delft), Pieter Jonker (TU Delft)

Siddharth Ravi “Reinforcement Learning Across Timescales”
Mentors: Tim de Bruin (TU Delft), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Ronald Olsthoorn “Segmented Active Reward Learning”
Mentors: Jens Kober (TU Delft), Robert Babuška (TU Delft)

Yannick Kathmann “Multi-Sensor Human Detection on an Intelligent Security Robot - A study on combining vision and laser scan data”
Mentors: Jochem Verboom (RSS), Eelko van Breda (RSS), Floris Gaisser (TU Delft), Jens Kober (TU Delft), Pieter Jonker (TU Delft)

Niels Marck “Semi-parametric Identification of Manipulator Dynamics in a Time-varying Environment”
Mentor: Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Derk Mus “Generating Robotic Manipulation Trajectories with Neural Networks”
Mentors: Zoltán Szlávik (IBM), Robert-Jan Sips (IBM), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Xiang Zhang “Learning Control Policies for Tooth Extraction - An Application of Programming by Demonstration”
Mentors: Jens Kober (TU Delft), Tom van Riet (AMC)

Victor van Spaandonk “Learning Variable Impedance Control: A Model-Based Approach Using Gaussian Processes”
Mentor: Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Renée van der Wijden “Preference-driven Demonstration Ranking for Inverse Reinforcement Learning”
Mentors: Corrado Grappiolo (Alten), Chris Kalis (Alten), Jens Kober (TU Delft), Ivan Koryakovskiy (TU Delft), Martijn Wisse (TU Delft)

Jelle Munk “Deep Reinforcement Learning - Pretraining actor-critic networks using state representation learning”
Mentors: Jens Kober (TU Delft), Robert Babuška (TU Delft)

Denise Feirstein “Reinforcement Learning of Potential Fields to achieve Limit-Cycle Walking”
Mentors: Heike Vallery (TU Delft), Ivan Koryakovskiy (TU Delft), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Jihong Zhu “Real-time Collision Avoidance for Robot Manipulators by Braking Trajectory Prediction”
Mentors: Nico Mansfeld (DLR), Jens Kober (TU Delft)

Tamis van der Laan “Consolidated Deep Actor Critic Networks”
Mentors: Marco Loog (TU Delft), Jens Kober (TU Delft)