Alexander Liniger
Research Scientist at RAI Institute
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Liniger is a research scientist and roboticist with eight years of experience at the intersection of control theory, deep learning, and reinforcement learning, focused on autonomous driving and robotics. He has led and published research from ETH Zürich to industry roles at Huawei and now RAI Institute, building interpretable end-to-end driving policies, model-based RL, and temporal reasoning for prediction and planning. His work spans theory to real-world systems—demonstrated by online model learning on full-sized race cars and a practical Model Predictive Contouring Controller (MPCC) implementation for autonomous racing. He combines hands-on algorithm engineering (refactoring optimization interfaces, collision-avoidance constraints, and quadprog integration) with teaching and group leadership. Based in Zurich, he blends deep control expertise from a PhD in Automatic Control with practical product-focused outcomes such as startup-grade accident-warning systems. Colleagues know him for making complex temporal and safety-critical problems both interpretable and deployable.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering, Master’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule ZürichDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Automatic Control, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Automatic Control at ETH Zurich
English, German
Github Skills (11)
algorithm10
mpc10
algorithms10
matlab10
optimisation10
optimizers10
model-predictive-control10
optimization10
linear-algebra9
c-language8
cprogramming-language8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
alexliniger/MPCC
Oct 2018 - Nov 2021
Model Predictive Contouring Controller (MPCC) for Autonomous Racing
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Algorithm Engineer
Back-end Developer & Algorithm EngineerContributions:41 commits, 10 PRs, 42 pushes in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily focused on developing and improving the Model Predictive Contouring Controller (MPCC) for autonomous racing. Their contributions involved updating and modifying core Matlab files related to the MPCC algorithm, including functions for border calculations and optimization interfaces. They addressed collision avoidance and introduced a new Quadprog interface. Furthermore, they refactored the code and made modifications to the cost functions and constraints.
mpccroboticsautonomouscontrollerracing
alexliniger/gym-racecar
Nov 2020 - Nov 2021
This is a miniature race car gym-env for RL from states (and images)
Contributions:1 release, 5 commits, 3 pushes in 1 year
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