Niklas Wilhelm Funk
Postdoctoral Scientist @ Amazon Robotics | Prev: PhD Candidate in Robot Learning at TU Darmstadt; Intern @TRI, NVIDIA
Berlin Metropolitan Area
About
Bachelor in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
Master in Robotics, Systems and Control, both from ETH Zurich
Experience
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Postdoctoral Scientist at Amazon Fulfillment Technologies & Robotics
Feb 2026 - Present · 5 mos
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PHD Graduate Student at Technische Universität Darmstadt
Sep 2020 - Dec 2025 · 5 yrs 4 mos
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Robotics & Mobile Manipulation Intern at Toyota Research Institute
Apr 2025 - Jul 2025 · 4 mos
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Deep Learning Software Intern at NVIDIA
May 2020 - Aug 2020 · 4 mos
Working from home for NVIDIA as Deep Learning Software Intern.
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Master Thesis - Learning Event-triggered Control at Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
Sep 2019 - Apr 2020 · 8 mos
Master Thesis on leveraging hierrchical reinforcement learning algorithms for event-triggered control under the supervision of Sebastian Trimpe and Dominik Baumann.