Tobias Löw

Experience

Sep 2025 Feb 2026 Postdoctoral Researcher Idiap Research Institute Martigny, VS, Switzerland
Jan 2021 Jun 2025 Research Assistant Idiap Research Institute Martigny, VS, Switzerland
Sep 2018 Jun 2020 Postgraduate Student CSIRO Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Sep 2016 Jun 2017 Focus Project - ATHLAS Robotics Systems Lab, ETH Zürich Zürich, ZH, Switzerland
Jul 2013 Dec 2017 Laboratory Assistant u-Blox AG Thalwil, ZH, Switzerland

Education

Jan 2021 Jun 2025 PhD Electrical Engineering EPFL Lausanne, VD, Switzerland
Mar 2018 Sep 2020 MSc Mechanical Engineering ETH Zürich Zürich, ZH, Switzerland
Sep 2013 Jul 2017 BSc Mechanical Engineering ETH Zürich Zürich, ZH, Switzerland

Awards

2025 Nominated EPFL Asea Brown Boveri Ltd. Award Löw, Robot Manipulation with Geometric Algebra: A Unified Geometric Framework for Control and Optimization, 2025
2025 Nominated EPFL Thesis Distinction Löw, Robot Manipulation with Geometric Algebra: A Unified Geometric Framework for Control and Optimization, 2025
2024 Won Best Paper Award, IEEE RAS TC on Model-based Optimization for Robotics Shetty et al., Tensor Train for Global Optimization Problems in Robotics, 2023
2023 Won Idiap Best Paper Award Löw and Calinon, Geometric Algebra for Optimal Control With Applications in Manipulation Tasks, 2023

Committees

2023 Organizer Workshop on Geometric Representations: The Roles of Modern Screw Theory, Lie algebra, and Geometric Algebra in Robotics IEEE Intl Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2023

Teaching

2023 Assistant EE613 Machine Learning for Engineers EPFL
2023 Assistant MasterAI A04 - Robotics UniDistance
2022 Assistant MICRO-452 Basics of mobile robotics EPFL
2016 Assistant Thermodynamics I ETH Zürich

Supervision

2022 MSc Project Vincent Nguyen Smartphone interface for a portraitist robot Idiap/EPFL
2022 MSc Project Léane Donzé Path planning for a mobile robot using a handheld augmented reality interface Idiap/EPFL
2021 MSc Project Johnny Borkhoche Learning of non-photorealistic renderings for a caricaturist robot Idiap/EPFL
2021 MSc Project Jean Lesur GrowbotHub: harvesting and pollination with 7-axis robot manipulator Idiap/EPFL
2021 MSc Project Alexandre Marguet GrowbotHub: harvesting and pollination with 7-axis robot manipulator Idiap/EPFL