Adrian Röfer
PhD Student at University of Freiburg
Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolAdrian Röfer is an ELLIS PhD student at the Robot Learning Lab, University of Freiburg, focused on inferring the intent behind demonstrated tasks from minimal data using deep vision features and statistical methods. He combines a strong experimental mindset with practical software engineering, implementing reusable robotics tools—such as a differentiable kinematics library, a PyBullet wrapper, and workspace visualization utilities—that he relies on daily. With nine years of experience spanning academia and industry, Adrian has applied data-driven approaches to robot motion control and deployed computationally efficient motion generation systems at Amazon. He is comfortable across RL, ROS, and simulation-to-reality tooling, and prefers large-scale quantitative experiments that yield precise insights. Colleagues can expect code-first research that prioritizes reproducibility and tooling to accelerate future work.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of BremenMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Universität Bremen
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Github Skills (67)
simulator10
constraint10
robotics10
binding10
robot10
simulate9
collision-detection9
sdk9
pybullet9
bullet9
kinematics9
python9
optimization9
simulation9
physics-engine9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ARoefer/bullet3
Jan 2018 - Jul 2021
Contributions:37 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 6 months
physicsroboticsphysics-simulationmulti-physicsvirtual-reality
robot-learning-freiburg/ros_sam
Sep 2023 - Mar 2025
ROS wrapper for Meta's Segment-Anything model
Contributions:3 reviews, 4 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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