Tobias Fischer
Senior Lecturer at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)
Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolTobias Fischer is a Senior Lecturer and Chief Investigator at QUT’s Centre for Robotics with 11 years of experience building perception-driven robotic systems that enable safe, human-aware interaction in real-world environments. He holds a PhD from Imperial College London (UK Best PhD in Robotics) and has secured over AUD 2M in competitive funding, including an ARC DECRA fellowship focused on robust visual place recognition and neuromorphic solutions for edge deployment. His work bridges computer vision, neuromorphic engineering and robot software tooling—he is a driving force behind RoboStack-style efforts and contributes to prominent open-source projects like MoveIt and YARP, improving compatibility and resource management. Tobias combines rigorous academic awards and industry-style engineering (DevOps and build automation for conda-forge) to deliver reproducible, production-ready robotics software. Colleagues know him for blending biological inspiration with practical systems thinking to make high-speed, energy-efficient localization work outside the lab.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Artificial Intelligence, Distinction, Master of Science (MS), Artificial Intelligence, Distinction at The University of EdinburghDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Robotics, UK Best PhD in Robotics Award 2018 sponsored by Queen Mary, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Robotics, UK Best PhD in Robotics Award 2018 sponsored by Queen Mary at Imperial College LondonOther; Certificate in Management Essentials, Complete, Other; Certificate in Management Essentials, Complete at Harvard Business School OnlineBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Engineering at Technische Universität Ilmenau
German, English, French
Github Skills (22)
conda-forge10
middleware10
c-language10
robotics10
mson10
python10
patch10
packaging10
bash10
cmake10
cicd10
build-automation10
mesonbuild10
cprogramming-language10
motion-planning10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
robotology/yarp
Jun 2016 - Aug 2018
YARP - Yet Another Robot Platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:39 commits, 23 PRs, 29 pushes in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Tobias primarily focused on improving the integration of YARP with the ROS (Robot Operating System) framework. They modified several modules to ensure proper resource management by calling the interrupt and destructor methods of ROS nodes during the close operations of YARP devices. Additionally, the user implemented services to expose connection information and master URI for ROS. Furthermore, they addressed memory leaks and fixed compilation issues.
roboticscommunicationhumanoidsrobotyet-another
Tobias-Fischer/libsdformat-feedstock
Jun 2021 - Jan 2025
A conda-smithy repository for libsdformat.
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years 7 months
condasmithy
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