Maximilian Stölzle
Postdoctoral Associate
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolMaximilian Stölzle is a robotics researcher and software engineer with a decade of experience bridging academic research and product-focused development. He holds an MS from ETH Zürich and completed a PhD at TU Delft on learning and control for soft robots, with collaborations at MIT and ESA that produced work on neural-network-enhanced planning and occlusion-aware terrain mapping. Currently a Postdoctoral Associate at MIT CSAIL after research roles at TU Delft and Disney Research, he combines rigorous physics-informed modeling with modern learning methods to make soft and hybrid robot control both safe and precise. He also brings startup engineering chops from co-leading development at Quap GmbH—shipping frontend/back-end features, AWS migrations and payment integrations—so he’s comfortable taking ideas from prototype to production. Based in Cambridge, MA, Maximilian uniquely pairs systems-level product experience with deep expertise in control, simulation and learned models for embodied agents. Outside core research he has led student teams in rocketry and real-time flight software, showing a consistent knack for turning complex dynamics into reliable systems.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at TU Delft | Mechanical EngineeringUniversity College LondonGymnasium Untere WaidSwiss Upper Secondary School Diploma, Swiss Upper Secondary School Diploma at Kantonsschule RomanshornSentinel Secondary SchoolMaster of Science - MS, Mechanical Engineering - Major in Robotics, Systems and Control, Master of Science - MS, Mechanical Engineering - Major in Robotics, Systems and Control at ETH Zürich
German, English, French
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Github Skills (160)
python10
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mechanics10
deep-learning10
gpu10
occlusion10
inpainting10
elevation10
robotics10
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motion-capture10
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
tud-phi/hsa-planar-control
Sep 2023 - Aug 2024
Contributions:239 pushes, 3 branches in 11 months
tud-phi/pcc-pneumatic-piston-backstepping
Mar 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:259 commits, 7 pushes in 9 months
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