Torsten Kroeger

Short Bio

Torsten Kroeger is a lecturer and researcher at Stanford University. He finished his studies in electrical engineering at TU Braunschweig, Germany, in 2002. In 2001, he attended an industrial internship at Lenze Corp. in Atlanta, GA. From 2003 to 2009, he was a research fellow at Institut für Robotik und Prozessinformatik at TU Braunschweig, from which he received his Ph.D. degree in 2009. Since 2006, he has also been working as a consulter for Volkswagen AG, KUKA Roboter GmbH, and Manz Automation AG. He is the founder of Reflexxes GmbH, a start-up company working on the development of the Reflexxes Motion Libraries. In 2010, he joined the robotics research group at Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, where is now works on instantaneous trajectory generation, autonomous hybrid switched-control of robots, and distributed real-time hard- and software systems. He co-organized GWR 2009 and was the Workshops and Tutorials Chair of ICRA 2011 and the Local Arrangement and Registration Chair of IROS 2011. He received the Heinrich Büssing Award, the GFFT Award, two fellowships of the German Research Association, and he was a finalist of the IEEE/IFR IERA Award and the euRobotics TechTransfer Award.