Biography
Matthias graduated with a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Math Minor from Texas A&M University in 2011. After graduation, he joined P+Z Engineering as an Electrical Engineer and worked for 3 years on the development of mild-hybrid electric machines at BMW. In 2014, he started his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering at KAUST and rolled over into the Ph.D. program in 2016. His research interests lie in the fields of computer vision, robotics and machine learning where he has contributed to more than 10 publications in top tier conference such as CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, RSS, ICRA and IROS. Matthias has extensive experience in object tracking and autonomous navigation of embodied agents such as cars and UAVs. He was recognized as an outstanding reviewer for CVPR’18 and won the best paper award at the ECCV’18 workshop UAVision. Matthias just defended his PhD dissertation and is now a research scientist at Intel Labs.