// News thumb: WxH ~ 1x0.7 const pubNews = [ { "title": "I've started the 'Machine Intelligence Group at the University of Technology Nuremberg!", "date": "4/2026", "image": "utn_start.jpg", "thumb": "utn_start.jpg", "caption": "I've started the 'Machine Intelligence Group at the University of Technology Nuremberg!" }, { "title": "I spoke at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute AOPE Seminar!", "date": "12/2025", "image": "whoi_25.jpg", "thumb": "whoi_25.jpg", "caption": "I spoke at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute AOPE Seminar!" }, { "title": "I'm a panelist at From Lab to Liftoff: Accelerating Intelligent Systems at Swissnex in Boston! [Event]", "date": "12/2025", "image": "swissnex_panel_25.jpg", "thumb": "swissnex_panel_25.jpg", "caption": "I'm a panelist at From Lab to Liftoff: Accelerating Intelligent Systems at Swissnex in Boston! [Event]" }, { "title": "We present DAAAM: A new state-of-the-art spatio-temporal robot memory! [Paper] [Project]", "date": "11/2025", "image": "daaam.jpg", "thumb": "daaam.jpg", "caption": "We present DAAAM: A new state-of-the-art spatio-temporal robot memory! [Paper] [Project]" }, { "title": "Honored to serve as Area Chair for Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2026!", "date": "11/2025", "image": "rss_ac_26.jpg", "thumb": "rss_ac_26.jpg", "caption": "Honored to serve as Area Chair for Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2026!" }, { "title": "I presented my research on Embodied Spatio-Temporal AI at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University!", "date": "10/2025", "image": "sjtu.jpg", "thumb": "sjtu.jpg", "caption": "I presented my research on Embodied Spatio-Temporal AI at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University!" }, { "title": "I'm a NOKOV New Generation Star at IROS!", "date": "10/2025", "image": "nokov_ngs_iros25.jpg", "thumb": "nokov_ngs_iros25.jpg", "caption": "I'm a NOKOV New Generation Star at IROS!" }, { "title": "Excited to give a workshop keynote at AIR4D at IROS! [Workshop]", "date": "10/2025", "image": "air4d_iros25.jpg", "thumb": "air4d_iros25.jpg", "caption": "Excited to give a workshop keynote at AIR4D at IROS! [Workshop]" }, { "title": "Our Workshop on VLM in the Real World got accepted! Join us at NeurIPS 2025 in Mexico City! [Workshop] [CfP]", "date": "10/2025", "image": "VLM4CRWD.jpg", "thumb": "VLM4CRWD.jpg", "caption": "Our Workshop on VLM in the Real World got accepted! Join us at NeurIPS 2025 in Mexico City! [Workshop] [CfP]" }, { "title": "I'm an Associate Editor for IEEE ICRA 2026 in Vienna!", "date": "9/2024", "image": "icra_ae_26.jpg", "thumb": "icra_ae_26.jpg", "caption": "I'm an Associate Editor for' IEEE ICRA 2026 in Vienna!" }, { "title": "Excited to give a workshop keynote at OpenSun3D at CVPR! [Workshop] [Recording]", "date": "6/2025", "image": "cvpr25_ws.jpg", "thumb": "cvpr25_ws.jpg", "caption": "Excited to give a workshop keynote at OpenSun3D at CVPR! [Workshop] [Recording]" }, { "title": "We present GaME, a first Gaussian Splatting method for evolving scenes! [Paper] [Project]", "date": "6/2025", "image": "game.jpg", "thumb": "game.jpg", "caption": "We present GaME, a first Gaussian Splatting method for evolving scenes! [Paper] [Project]" }, { "title": "I presented my research on Spatio-Temporal AI at the University of Technology Nuremberg!", "date": "6/2025", "image": "utn.jpg", "thumb": "utn.jpg", "caption": "I presented my research on Spatio-Temporal AI at the University of Technology Nuremberg!" }, { "title": "Our Workshop on Active Perception got accepted! Join us at IROS 2025 in Hangzhou! [Workshop] [Challenge]", "date": "5/2025", "image": "iros25_ap_ws.jpg", "thumb": "iros25_ap_ws.jpg", "caption": "Our Workshop on Active Perception got accepted! Join us at IROS 2025 in Hangzhou! [Workshop] [Challenge]" }, { "title": "Our Workshop on Open World Navigation got accepted! Join us at IROS 2025 in Hangzhou! [Workshop] [CfP]", "date": "5/2025", "image": "iros25_own_ws.jpg", "thumb": "iros25_own_ws.jpg", "caption": "Our Workshop on Open World Navigation got accepted! Join us at IROS 2025 in Hangzhou! [Workshop] [CfP]" }, { "title": "I've been selected as an RSS: Pioneer! [RSS Pioneers]", "date": "4/2025", "image": "rss_pioneers.jpg", "thumb": "rss_pioneers.jpg", "caption": "I've been selected as an RSS: Pioneer! [RSS Pioneers]" }, { "title": "I presented my research on Spatio-Temporal AI at the Georgia Institute of Technology!", "date": "3/2025", "image": "gt_logo.jpg", "thumb": "gt_logo.jpg", "caption": "I presented my research on Spatio-Temporal AI at the Georgia Institute of Technology!" }, { "title": "Our Workshop on Unifying Visual SLAM got accepted! Join us at RSS 2025 in LA! [Workshop] [CfP]", "date": "3/2025", "image": "rss25_ws.jpg", "thumb": "rss25_ws.jpg", "caption": "Our Workshop on Unifying Visual SLAM got accepted! Join us at RSS 2025 in LA! [Workshop] [CfP]" }, { "title": "I presented my research on Spatio-Temporal AI at Boston University!", "date": "3/2025", "image": "bu.jpg", "thumb": "bu.jpg", "caption": "I presented my research on Spatio-Temporal AI at Boston University!" }, { "title": "I presented my research on Spatio-Temporal AI at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics!", "date": "2/2025", "image": "mpi.png", "thumb": "mpi.png", "caption": "I presented my research on Spatio-Temporal AI at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics!" }, { "title": "I gave an invited talk at the BOSCH Robotics Seminar!", "date": "2/2025", "image": "bosch.png", "thumb": "bosch.png", "caption": "I gave an invited talk at the BOSCH Robotics Seminar!" }, { "title": "I presented my research on Spatio-Temporal AI at Maastricht University!", "date": "2/2025", "image": "maastricht.png", "thumb": "maastricht.png", "caption": "I presented my research on Spatio-Temporal AI at Maastricht University!" }, { "title": "I was awarded the MIT Kaufman Teaching Certificate!", "date": "1/2025", "image": "ktcp.jpg", "thumb": "ktcp.jpg", "caption": "I was awarded the MIT Kaufman Teaching Certificate!" }, { "title": "I presented my vision for Spatio-Temporal AI at the Georgia Tech Faculty Pathways Seminar!", "date": "11/2024", "image": "gatech_fps.jpg", "thumb": "gatech_fps.jpg", "caption": "I presented my vision for Spatio-Temporal AI at the Georgia Tech Faculty Pathways Seminar!" }, { "title": "I presented our work at the Mila Robot Learning Seminar! [Recording]", "date": "10/2024", "image": "mila_t.jpg", "thumb": "mila_t.jpg", "caption": "I presented our work at the Mila Robot Learning Seminar! [Recording]" }, { "title": "LP², our framework for long-term human motion prediction, is accepted to RA-L and the code is released! [Paper] [Video] [Code]", "date": "10/2024", "image": "lp2_t.jpg", "thumb": "lp2_t.jpg", "caption": "LP², our framework for long-term human motion prediction, is accepted to RA-L and the code is released! [Paper] [Video] [Code]" }, { "title": "Our successful workshop at IROS 2024 was featured by IEEE RAS! [Workshop] [Article]", "date": "10/2024", "image": "workshop_iros24_t.jpg", "thumb": "workshop_iros24_t.jpg", "caption": "Our workshop at IROS 2024 was featured by IEEE RAS! [Workshop] [Article]" }, { "title": "I presented our vision on spatio-temporal perception at ICRA@40! [Khronos] [LP²] [3D VSG]", "date": "9/2024", "image": "icra40.jpg", "thumb": "icra40.jpg", "caption": "I presented our vision on spatio-temporal perception at ICRA@40! [Khronos] [LP²] [3D VSG]" }, { "title": "I'm an Associate Editor for IEEE ICRA 2025 in Atlanta!", "date": "9/2024", "image": "icra2025.jpg", "thumb": "icra2025.jpg", "caption": "I'm an Associate Editor for' IEEE ICRA 2025 in Atlanta!" }, { "title": "I presented our works at the TU Munich (TUM) and the German Aerospace Center (DLR)!", "date": "9/2024", "image": "tum_t.png", "thumb": "tum_t.png", "caption": "I presented our works at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the German Aerospace Center (DLR)!" }, { "title": "We're organizing a Workshop on Long-term Perception at IROS 2024! [Homepage] [CfP]", "date": "8/2024", "image": "iros2024.png", "thumb": "iros2024_t.png", "caption": "We're organizing a Workshop on Long-term Perception at IROS 2024! [Homepage] [CfP]" }, { "title": "Khronos won the Outstanding Systems Paper Award at Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS)!", "date": "7/2024", "image": "khronos_rss_award.jpg", "thumb": "khronos_rss_award_t.jpg", "caption": "Khronos won the Outstanding Systems Paper Award Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS)!" }, { "title": "We've presented our works on Clio and Khronos at Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS)!", "date": "7/2024", "image": "khronos_rss.jpg", "thumb": "khronos_rss.jpg", "caption": "We've presented our works on Clio and Khronos at Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS)!" }, { "title": "We present a novel optimal approach to collaborative exploration for navigation! [Paper] [Code]", "date": "6/2024", "image": "../code/scouting_ipp.png", "thumb": "scouting_ipp_t.png", "caption": "We present a novel optimal approach to collaborative exploration for navigation! [Paper] [Code]" }, { "title": "We've released Spatial-Hash, a lightweight C++ library for voxel block hashing! [Code]", "date": "6/2024", "image": "spatial_hash.png", "thumb": "spatial_hash.png", "caption": "We've released Spatial-Hash, a lightweight C++ library for voxel block hashing!! [Code]" }, { "title": "We have released the video and code for our work on SC-Explorer! [Paper] [Video] [Code]", "date": "6/2024", "image": "ssc_t.png", "thumb": "ssc_t.png", "caption": "We have released the video and code for our work on SC-Explorer! [Paper] [Video] [Code]" }, { "title": "I've been appointed as Associate Editor for the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)!", "date": "6/2024", "image": "ral_ae.jpg", "thumb": "ral_ae_t.jpg", "caption": "I've been appointed as Associate Editor for the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)!" }, { "title": "We presented Dynablox at ICRA 2024! [Paper] [Video] [Code]", "date": "5/2024", "image": "icra24.jpg", "thumb": "icra24_t.jpg", "caption": "We presented Dynablox at ICRA 2024! [Paper] [Video] [Code]" }, { "title": "We won first place in the 2024 'Nothing Stands Still' Hilti SLAM Challenge!", "date": "5/2024", "image": "nss.jpeg", "thumb": "nss_t.jpeg", "caption": "We won first place in the 2024 'Nothing Stands Still' Hilti SLAM Challenge! Congratulations to Hyungtae Lim for leading the challenge!" }, { "title": "I held a guest lecture for Mobile Robotics: Methods and Algorithms at the University of Michigan on Perception of Dynamic Scenes! [Recording]", "date": "4/2024", "image": "umich24.jpg", "thumb": "umich24_t.jpg", "caption": "I held a guest lecture for Mobile Robotics: Methods and Algorithms at the University of Michigan on Perception of Dynamic Scenes! [Recording]" }, { "title": "We announced Khronos, a novel framework for Spatio-temporal Metric-semantic SLAM! [Paper] [Video]", "date": "2/2024", "image": "khronos.png", "thumb": "khronos_t.png", "caption": "We announced Khronos, a novel framework for Spatio-temporal Metric-semantic SLAM jointly optimize short-term motion, long-term changes, and spatial global consistency! [Paper] [Video] [Code]" }, { "title": "We've released an article in the Postdocket on how to successfully advocate for postdocs! [Journal]", "date": "2/2024", "image": "npa.png", "thumb": "npa.png", "caption": "We've released an article in the Postdocket on how to successfully advocate for postdocs! [Journal]" }, { "title": "I'm honored to be awarded the ETH Medal for Outstanding PhD Thesis for my PhD research!", "date": "12/2023", "image": "eth_medal_phd.jpeg", "thumb": "eth_medal_phd.jpeg", "caption": "I'm honored to be the recipient of the ETH Medal for Outstanding PhD Thesis for the research conducted for my PhD work! I'm grateful to my advisor Prof Roland Siegwart, Cesar Cadena, and Juan Nieto, as well as everyone at ASL, D-MAVT, and ETH that made this possible through their support!" }, { "title": "We've released Config Utilities, a new C++ library for managing configuration files, as open source! [github]", "date": "11/2023", "image": "config_utilities.png", "thumb": "config_utilities_t.png", "caption": "We've released Config Utilities, a new C++ library for managing configuration files, as open source! [github]" }, { "title": "I presented our recent advances on understanding dyanmic scenes in robotics at the MIT Machine Learning Tea-talk series!", "date": "10/2023", "image": "ml_tea.jpg", "thumb": "ml_tea_t.jpg", "caption": "I presented our recent advances on understanding dyanmic scenes in robotics at the MIT Machine Learning Tea-talk series!" }, { "title": "We presented our works on 3D-VSGs [Paper] [Code] and SC-Explorer [Paper] at ICRA 2023!", "date": "6/2023", "image": "icra23.png", "thumb": "icra23_t.jpg", "caption": "We presented our works on 3D-VSGs [Paper] [Code] and SC-Explorer [Paper] [Video] [Code] at ICRA 2023!" }, { "title": "We're excited to announce Dynablox: our new online mapping-based moving object detection framework! [Paper] [Video] [Code]", "date": "4/2023", "image": "../code/dynablox.gif", "thumb": "dynablox_t.png", "caption": "We're excited to announce Dynablox: our new online mapping-based moving object detection framework! [Paper] [Video] [Code]" }, { "title": "My student René Zurbrügg is awarded the ETH Medal for his outstanding master thesis, Congrats! [Paper] [Video] [Code]", "date": "4/2023", "image": "eth_medal.jpg", "thumb": "eth_medal_t.jpg", "caption": "My student René Zurbrügg is awarded the ETH Medal, Congrats!" }, { "title": "Our paper proposing 3D Variable Scene Graphs is accepted to ICRA'23! [Paper] [Code]", "date": "3/2023", "image": "3d_vsg.png", "thumb": "3d_vsg_t.png", "caption": "Our paper proposing 3D Variable Scene Graphs for Long-term Semantic Scene Change Prediction is accepted to ICRA'23! [Paper] [Code]" }, { "title": "I joined the MIT SPARK Lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow!", "date": "2/2023", "image": "mit.jpg", "thumb": "mit_t.jpg", "caption": "I'm excited to share that have joined the MIT SPARK Lab as a postdoctoral fellow working with Prof. Luca Carlone!" }, { "title": "I have been awarded a Swiss National Science Foundation Career Grant!", "date": "12/2022", "image": "snf.png", "thumb": "snf.png", "caption": "I have been awarded a Swiss National Science Foundation Postdoc.Mobility Career Grant!" }, { "title": "I presented our work on Learning Exploration at IROS 2022! [Paper] [Video] [Code]", "date": "10/2022", "image": "iros22.jpg", "thumb": "iros22_t.jpg", "caption": "Great discussions at IROS 2022 about our work!" }, { "title": "I successfully defended my PhD Thesis on Scene Understanding in Active Perception and Mapping!", "date": "10/2022", "image": "phd.jpg", "thumb": "phd_t.jpg", "caption": "I successfully defended my PhD Thesis!" }, { "title": "I presented our work on Panoptic Mapping at ICRA 2022! [Paper] [Video] [Code]", "date": "5/2022", "image": "icra22.jpg", "thumb": "icra22_t.jpg", "caption": "I presented our work on Panoptic Mapping at ICRA 2022! [Paper] [Video] [Code]" }, { "title": "Panoptic Mapping, our latest volumetric mapping system is released as open-source!", "date": "1/2022", "image": "pan.png", "thumb": "pan_t.png", "caption": "Panoptic Mapping, our latest volumetric mapping system is released as open-source!" }]