Research Fellow
University of California, Los Angeles
Dr. rer. nat.
Technical University of Munich
I am a research fellow at UCLA Mobility Lab, working with Prof. Jiaqi Ma. I obtained my Ph.D. degree from Technical University of Munich (TUM) with highest distinction (summa cum laude), under the supervision of Prof. Alois Knoll and Prof. Andreas Festag, with invaluable mentorship from Prof. Holger Caesar. I was a senior researcher at Fraunhofer IVI, and led/co-led to 4 research projects with a combined budget over €15 million. Before that, I was a technical product owner for autonomous driving at ZF R&D Center and IPG Automotive.
My research interests include deep learning, computer vision, cooperative intelligence and their applications in autonomous driving, transportation or robotics.
        09/2025: One paper was accepted at NeurIPS.
        06/2025: Two papers were accepted at ICCV.
        06/2025: I am happy to have been recognized as an outstanding reviewer for CVPR 2025.
        06/2025: One papers was accepted at IROS.
        05/2025: One workshop was accepted at ICCV 2025. Find more details here: 2nd DriveX.
        04/2025: Two papers were accepted at IEEE IV.
        04/2025: I have successfully defensed my PhD at TUM and was honored to graduate with highest distinction (summa cum laude)!
        01/2025: One workshop was accepted at CVPR 2025. Find more details here: 1st DriveX.
        11/2024: One workshop was accepted at IEEE IV 2025. Find more details here: DLIVA.
        10/2024: I am happy to have been recognized as an outstanding reviewer for ACM MM 2024.
        08/2024: One papers was accepted at ECCV Workshop. We won the 3rd Place in the ECCV Dataset Distillation Challenge.
        03/2024: One papers was accepted at IEEE IV.
        02/2024: Two papers were accepted at CVPR. 
        CoHFF & TUMTraf-V2X
 
        10/2023: One paper was accepted at IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IF=10.6).
        
        09/2023: One paper was accepted at IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles (IF=8.2).
        
        07/2023: One paper was accepted at Knowledge-based Systems (IF=8.8).
        05/2023: One paper was accepted at ICRA-CoPerception.
        04/2023: One paper was accepted at IJCNN. 
        
        03/2023: I open-sourced a repository for a PyTorch implementation of federated learning (FL), integrating various FL algorithms, models, and datasets. 
        
        02/2023: One paper was accepted at CVPR (Highlight).
        02/2023: We released SensorTraffix, a SENSORIS-based software product for infrastructure communication, as part of the Fraunhofer IVI's assets,  CONTACT.
        05/2022: I had a live interview at the opening event for our 5G Innovation Lab in Ingolstadt.
        05/2022: One paper was accepted at IEEE ITSC. 
        
        03/2022: One paper was accepted at IEEE VTC.
        02/2022: I officially started my PhD at TUM Informatics-VI department.
        12/2021: One paper was accepted at FISITA World Congress (Outstanding Paper Award).
        02/2021: I joined Fraunhofer IVI as a researcher and served as the lead in the research project InFra
CoDa-4DGS: Dynamic Gaussian Splatting with Context and Deformation Awareness for Autonomous Driving
ICCV 2025
Project Page | Paper | Code
TrafficLoc: Localizing Traffic Surveillance Cameras in 3D Scenes
ICCV 2025
Project Page | Paper | Code
Collaborative Semantic Occupancy Prediction with Hybrid Feature Fusion in Connected Automated Vehicles
CVPR 2024
Project Page | Paper | Code
TUMTraf V2X Cooperative Perception Dataset
CVPR 2024
Project Page | Paper | Data
        Workshop Co-organizer:
          2nd DriveX in ICCV 2025,
          1st DriveX in CVPR 2025,
          DLIVA in IEEE IV 2025,
          5th DDIVA in IEEE IV 2024
        
          Program Committee Member:
           1st MEIS in ECCV 2024.
        Conference Reviewer: CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ACM MM, AISTATS, IJCNN, IROS, IEEE IV, ITSC 
        Journal Reviewer: TNNLS, TCSVT, RA-L, Information Fusion, Neurocomputing 
        Outstanding Reviewer Award: CVPR 2025, ACM MM 2024
        
2021-2024: 5G Innovation Concept in Ingolstadt (5GoIng), funded by the German Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport (BMDV)
          2021-2024: Ingolstadt Innovation Labotory (In2Lab), funded by Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs (StMWi), Regional Development and Energy
          2021-2023: Artificial Intelligence in the Transportation System in Ingolstadt (KIVI), funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
          2021-2023: Intelligent Infrastructure (Infra), funded by Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs (StMWi), Regional Development and Energy. 
          2018-2021: SetLevel4to5, funded by the German Federal Ministy for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi)
          2017-2018: Intelligent Maneuver Automation – cooperative hazard avoidance in realtime (IMAGinE) funded by the German Federal Ministy for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi)
          2017-2018: PEGASUS funded by the German the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi)
   
        
Snowboard: Certificated as level 3 instructor by DSLV (German Ski/Snowboard Instructor Association).
        Marathon: PB 3h55; 5KM: PB 18.
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