Timm Linder - Collaboration Lead Context Understanding For Autonomous Systems

Timm Linder

Collaboration Lead Context Understanding For Autonomous Systems

Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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Timm Linder is a research scientist and collaboration lead at Bosch Research with 12 years of experience specializing in real-time, deep learning–based 3D perception for mobile robots. He leads cross-sector projects on holistic context-aware scene understanding (including H2020 DARKO) and has a strong track record deploying real-world systems, notably a 250 kg autonomous service robot for airport passenger guidance from the SPENCER project. His expertise spans multi-modal detection and probabilistic multi-hypothesis tracking using LiDAR, cameras, RGB‑D and 2D laser, backed by 16 years of C++ and deep ROS knowledge. He combines academic rigor (PhD-level robotics research) with full-stack engineering contributions—his open-source work includes multi-modal ROS-based people-tracking components and visualization plugins. Known for pragmatic domain adaptation and synthetic-data strategies, he builds robust detectors from limited real-world supervision and coordinates large collaborative research programs bridging industry and academia.

12 years of coding experience

11 years of employment as a software developer

Doktor der Ingenieurwissenschaften, Computer Science / Robotics, Doktor der Ingenieurwissenschaften, Computer Science / Robotics at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Breisgau

Diploma (M.Sc. equivalent), Applied Computer Sciences, with highest honors, Diploma (M.Sc. equivalent), Applied Computer Sciences, with highest honors at Universität Duisburg-Essen, Standort Duisburg

English, French, German

Github Skills (5)

c-language10

cprogramming-language10

ros10

rviz10

collada9

Programming languages (6)

C++CCMakeJavaScriptPythonCuda

Github contributions (5)

spencer-project/spencer_people_tracking

Mar 2015 - Dec 2020

Multi-modal ROS-based people detection and tracking framework for mobile robots developed within the context of the EU FP7 project SPENCER.

Role in this project:

Full-stack Developer

Contributions:242 commits, 20 PRs, 183 pushes in 5 years 9 months

Contributions summary:Timm contributed to message definitions, RViz plugins, and mock scripts, suggesting involvement in both the frontend (visualization) and backend (message definitions and scripting) aspects of the project. The inclusion of a 3D model in COLLADA format further implies UI-related modifications. The changes span across different modules, indicating that the user has a broad knowledge of the system.

roboticsmulti-modalmobile-robotsmodalpeople-detection

spencer-project/spencer_human_attribute_recognition

Mar 2015 - Jun 2016

Contributions:19 commits, 13 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 3 months

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