About

Lukas Schmid is a Tenure-Track Professor of Machine Intelligence at UTN. Before that, he was a Research Scientist and Postdoctoral Fellow at the MIT SPARK Lab led by Prof. Luca Carlone at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Autonomous Systems Lab (ASL) led by Prof. Roland Siegwart at ETH Zürich. He earned his PhD in 2022 from ASL at ETHZ, where he also obtained his M.Sc. in Robotics, Systems, and Control (RSC) in 2019 and was a visiting researcher at the Microsoft Spatial AI Lab led by Prof. Marc Pollefeys in 2022.

His work has been recognized by several honors, including RSS Pioneers 2025, NOKOV New Generation Star at IROS 2025, the RSS Outstanding Systems Paper Award 2024, two ETH Medals for outstanding PhD and M.Sc. Theses, the Willi Studer Prize for the best graduate of the year at ETHZ, the first place in the 2024 Hilti SLAM challenge, and a Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Postdoc Fellowship.

His research focuses on embodied spatio-temporal AI for human-centric robot autonomy. This includes research on scene representations and abstraction, on detection, prediction, and understanding of moving and changing entities, active perception and information gathering, as well as lifelong learning for continuous adaptation to the robot environment, embodiment, task, and human preference.

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Publications

List of publications of Prof. Dr. Lukas Schmid on Google Scholar