CV
Experience
| May 2026 – present | Postdoctoral Scholar | University of Washington | Seattle, WA, United States |
| 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 | Idiap Best Paper Award | Bilaloglu, Löw and Calinon, Tactile Ergodic Coverage on Curved Surfaces, 2025 | Won |
| 2025 | EPFL Asea Brown Boveri Ltd. Award | Löw, Robot Manipulation with Geometric Algebra: A Unified Geometric Framework for Control and Optimization, 2025 | Nominated |
| 2025 | EPFL Thesis Distinction | Löw, Robot Manipulation with Geometric Algebra: A Unified Geometric Framework for Control and Optimization, 2025 | Nominated |
| 2024 | Best Paper Award, IEEE RAS TC on Model-based Optimization for Robotics | Shetty et al., Tensor Train for Global Optimization Problems in Robotics, 2023 | Won |
| 2023 | Idiap Best Paper Award | Löw and Calinon, Geometric Algebra for Optimal Control With Applications in Manipulation Tasks, 2023 | Won |
Committees
| 2026 | Workshop on Geometric Representations in Robotics: Structured Priors, Metrics, Constraints, and Groundings for Manipulation | IEEE/RSJ Intl Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2026 | Organizer |
| 2026 | Workshop: Geometry in the Age of Data‑Driven Robotics | IEEE Intl Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2026 | Organizer |
| 2023 | 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 | Organizer |
Invited Talks
| 2026 | Representing Robot Tasks via Graded Subspaces | IROS 2026 Workshop on Geometric Representations in Robotics, Pittsburgh, USA | Invited Talk |
| 2026 | Cooperative Task Spaces for Multi-Arm Manipulation Control | Talking Robotics (online seminar series) | Invited Talk |
| 2026 | Robot Manipulation with Geometric Algebra | NVIDIA Seattle Robotics Lab, Seattle, USA | Invited Talk |
Teaching
| 2023 | EE613 Machine Learning for Engineers | EPFL | Assistant |
| 2023 | MasterAI A04 - Robotics | UniDistance | Assistant |
| 2022 | MICRO-452 Basics of mobile robotics | EPFL | Assistant |
| 2016 | Thermodynamics I | ETH Zürich | Assistant |
Supervision
| 2022 | Vincent Nguyen | Smartphone interface for a portraitist robot | Idiap/EPFL MSc Project |
| 2022 | Léane Donzé | Path planning for a mobile robot using a handheld augmented reality interface | Idiap/EPFL MSc Project |
| 2021 | Johnny Borkhoche | Learning of non-photorealistic renderings for a caricaturist robot | Idiap/EPFL MSc Project |
| 2021 | Jean Lesur | GrowbotHub: harvesting and pollination with 7-axis robot manipulator | Idiap/EPFL MSc Project |
| 2021 | Alexandre Marguet | GrowbotHub: harvesting and pollination with 7-axis robot manipulator | Idiap/EPFL MSc Project |