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

  • Postdoctoral Scientist at Amazon Fulfillment Technologies & Robotics
    Feb 2026 - Present · 5 mos

  • PHD Graduate Student at Technische Universität Darmstadt
    Sep 2020 - Dec 2025 · 5 yrs 4 mos

  • Robotics & Mobile Manipulation Intern at Toyota Research Institute
    Apr 2025 - Jul 2025 · 4 mos

  • Deep Learning Software Intern at NVIDIA
    May 2020 - Aug 2020 · 4 mos

    Working from home for NVIDIA as Deep Learning Software Intern.

  • 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.