Prof. Dr. -Ing. Rania Rayyes
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
Institut für Fördertechnik und Logistiksysteme
Geb. 50.38 Gotthard-Franz-Str. 8
76131 Karlsruhe
Lectures
- Winter semester: Machine Learning for Robotic Systems1
- Summer semester: Machine Learning for Robotic Systems2
Research Interest:
- Efficient online learning for physical robot grasping and manipulators
- Autonomous robot learning: lifelong learning, intrinsic motivation, robot model learning
- Human-Robot Learning: interactive learning, imitation learning, teleoperation
- Deep Learning for object recognition, detection, and segmentation
- Explainable AI
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 overall EMEA (Middle East, Europe, and Africa) - 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 for Doctoral Program in Germany"
- The Academic Distinction Graduate Award for Mechatronics Bachelor Degree (Ranked First)
- Academic Excellence Top Student Awards: 5 awards during my Bachelor studies
Professional career since graduation
| 12/2022 - present | Junior-Professor (AI & Robotics), Institut für Fördertechnik und Logistiksysteme (IFL), Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), Germany |
| 01/2021 - 12/2022 | Postdoctoral Researcher, Institut für Robotik und Prozessinformatik, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany |
| 10/2015 - 12/2020 | Doctoral Researcher in Computer Science : AI & Robotics (Dr.-Ing.) Institut für Robotik und Prozessinformatik, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany |
| 10/2019 - 03/2020 | Research Intern, Sony Computer Science Lab, Tokyo, Japan |
| 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 |
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 for international conferences and journals
- Review Editor for Frontiers in Neurorobotics journal
- Reviewer for international Ph.D., Bachelor, and Master Theses
- 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)