Justus Piater
Head, Digital Science Center at Leopold-Franzens Universität Innsbruck
Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria
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Top SchoolJustus Piater is a Professor and Head of the Digital Science Center at Universität Innsbruck with 17 years of research leadership experience in robotics, computer vision, and machine learning. He leads the Intelligent and Interactive Systems group, focusing on end-to-end perception-action loops that enable robots to learn robust sensorimotor, perceptual, and reasoning skills for unstructured environments. His work blends reactive algorithms and cognitive models to tackle grasping, manipulation, and human-robot interaction, grounded in both theoretical and experimental neuroscience. With a PhD from UMass Amherst and prior professorships and research stints across Europe—including Max Planck and INRIA—he combines deep academic rigor with sustained program-building. Colleagues describe him as driven by a clear motto, “making robots learn to perceive and act with understanding,” which guides practical systems that improve through experience.
17 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at University of Massachusetts AmherstMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science at Otto-von-Guericke-Universität MagdeburgTechnische Universität Braunschweig
English, French, German
Github Skills (100)
vobject10
carddav10
synchronize10
icalendar10
caldav9
tasks9
lumia9
calendars9
smartphone9
ptp9
git-mirror9
zune9
cli8
python8
file-transfer8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
piater/uinputchars
Jun 2019 - Jan 2023
Contributions:1 release, 7 commits, 5 pushes in 3 years 8 months
piater/visualization-tool
Mar 2021 - Oct 2024
Visualization tool for various data structures & algorithms taught in Georgia Tech's CS 1332 class
Contributions:9 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 7 months
georgiageorgia-techdata-visualizationdata-structuresdata-structures-algorithms
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