Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rania Rayyes
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
Institut für Fördertechnik und Logistiksysteme
Geb. 50.38 Gotthard-Franz-Str. 8
76131 Karlsruhe
Head of AI and Robotics (AIR) research group
Lectures
- Winter semester: Machine Learning for Robotic Systems1
- Summer semester: Machine Learning for Robotic Systems2
Research Interest:
- Online learning and adaptation for physical robotic grasping and manipulation
- Sim-to-real domain adaptation
- Autonomous Robot Learning: uncertainty-drive learning, lifelong learning, intrinsic motivation, robot model learning
- Human-Robot Learning: interactive learning, imitation learning, teleoperation
- Vision-Based Deep Learning for object recognition, detection, and segmentation
Professional career since graduation
| 12/2022 - present | Junior-Professor (AI & Robotics), Institut für Fördertechnik und Logistiksysteme (IFL), Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), Innovationscampus Mobilität der Zukunft (ICM) Germany |
| 01/2021 - 12/2022 | Postdoctoral Researcher in Vision-Based Deep Learning and Robot Learning, Institut für Robotik und Prozessinformatik, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany |
| 10/2019 - 03/2020 | Research Intern in Human-Robot Learning, Sony Computer Science Lab, Tokyo, Japan |
| 10/2016 - 12/2020 | Doctoral Researcher in Computer Science : AI & Robotics (Dr.-Ing.) Institut für Robotik und Prozessinformatik, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany |
| 09/2015 - 10/2016 | Doctoral Researcher in Robot Learning, Forschungsinstitut für Kognition und Robotik (CoR-Lab), Universität Bielefeld, Germany |
| 02/2015 - 09/2015 | Awarded Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) scholarship for doctoral study in Germany; completed visa procedures and an intensive German course by DAAD |
| 10/2009 - 10/2012 | Master Degree in Mechatronics Engineering, Tishreen University, Latakia, Syria |
| 09/2008 - 02/2015 | Teaching Assistant, Mechatronics Institute, Tishreen University, Latakia, Syria |
Awards and Honors:
- Best Paper Award: Robotics: Science and Systems Conference (RSS), Workshop: Open-Set Robot Perception in the Wild (2024)
- Robotik Talent Award for my Ph.D. Dissertation from Niedersächsische Wirtschafts- und Digitalisierungsministerium (2021)
- AnitaB.org GHC faculty scholarship (2022)
- AnitaB.org GHC Student Scholarship (2020)
- Google grant for ACM womENcourage conference (2019)
Only 6 female computer science students were selected from Europe - Nominated by DAAD for the 7th Heidelberg Laureate Forum, Heidelberg, Germany (2019)
Only 20 scientists were nominated from all international DAAD scholarship holders and alumni - German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Scholarship "Research Grant - Doctoral Programmes in Germany" (2015-2019)
- Erasmus Mundus HERMES Scholarship (2015)
- Erasmus Mundus ASSUR Scholarship (2015) (only 12 students selected over all Syria)
I have been selected for three Ph.D. scholarships: DAAD Research Grant - Doctoral Programmes in Germany, Erasmus Mundus HERMES, and Erasmus Mundus ASSUR. I chose the DAAD scholarship. - The Academic Distinction Graduate Award for Mechatronics Bachelor Degree (Ranked First)
- Academic Excellence Top Student Awards: 4 awards during my Bachelor studies
Professional Activities:
- Member of the excellence committee "The Queen Mary (QMUL) UK Best PhD Award in Robotics" (2024)
- Associated Editor for IEEE IROS (2024)
- ICM Junior-Professor (since 12/2022)
- Board member of the international IMOL community (since 2022)
- Co-organizer for international IMOL workshop, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen, Germany (2022)
- Reviewer/Gutachterin for international Ph.D., Master, and Bachelor Theses
- Chair of the Doctoral Examination Committees (Promotionsvorsitz)
- Reviewer for international conferences and journals
- Member of Editorial Board for Frontiers in Neurorobotics Journal
- Invited speaker at international conferences and research labs.
- Joined Google Post-IWD program for industry professionals (invite only) (2022)
- Joined Google Get Ahead Program (invite-only) (2019)
- Invited and participated in Google International Women's Day (2021, 2022)
- Invited and participated in Top Women in Technology in Brussels (2018, 2022)
- Language skills: English (C2), German (B2).