Jens Kober

Cognitive Robotics department; TU Delft

Assistant Professor

Jens  Kober is an associate professor at the TU Delft, Netherlands. He worked as a  postdoctoral scholar jointly at the CoR-Lab, Bielefeld University, Germany  and at the Honda Research Institute Europe, Germany.

He graduated in 2012  with a PhD Degree in Engineering from TU Darmstadt and the MPI for  Intelligent Systems. For his research he received the annually awarded  Georges Giralt PhD Award for the best PhD thesis in robotics in Europe, the  2018 IEEE RAS Early Academic Career Award, and has received an ERC Starting  grant.

He is chair of the IEEE-RAS TC Robot Learning and program chair of the  Conference on Robot Learning 2020. His research interests include motor skill  learning, (deep) reinforcement learning, imitation learning, interactive  learning, and machine learning for control.