Short CV - Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sami Haddadin

Current Positions

• 04/2014 Appointed Full Professor (W3), Institute of Automatic Control, Leibniz University of Hanover, Hanover, Germany

Previous Positions

• 05/2013 - 12/2013 Vorhabensleiter Terrestrische Assistenzrobotik
• 02/2012 - 12/2013 Scientific Coordinator Human-Centered Robotics
• 02/2012 - 02/2013 Research consultant
• 07/2011 - 12/2013 Group Leader Human-Robot Interaction
• 07/2010 - 12/2013 Coordinator Human-Robot Interaction
• 01/2006 - 06/2010 Junior Scientist, Robotics and Mechatronics Center, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
• 02/2011 - 06/2011 Visiting Scholar, Willow Garage, Menlo Park, USA
• 02/2011 - 06/2011 Visiting Scholar, Stanford University, Palo Alto, USA

Education

• 03/2006 - 10/2011 Dissertation, Title: Towards Safe Robots: Approaching Asimovs 1st Law, RWTH Aachen, Germany
• 10/2006 - 04/2009 Master program Informatics, Degree: M.Sc. Informatics - honours with distinction, Technical University of Munich, Germany
• 10/2005 - 04/2008 Elite Graduate Program Technology Management, Degree: Honours Degree Technology Management, Center for Digital Technology and Management, Technical University of Munich, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich & Elitenetwork Bavaria, Germany
• 10/2002 - 04/2006 Diplom program Electrical Engineering, Degree: Dipl.-Ing. (German M.Sc.) Electrical Engineering with honours, Technical University of Munich, Germany
• 10/2001 - 06/2002 Erasmus scholar in Electrical Engineering, University of Oulu, Finland
• 04/2001 - 04/2006 Diplom program Computer Science with minor Medical Computer Science, Distance University of Hagen, Germany
• 10/1999 - 10/2001 Diplom program Electrical Engineering, University of Hanover, Germany

Awards & Honours

• Borchers Plaque 2013 of RWTH Aachen
• Martin Research Prize 2013 in Basic Research (awarded by Boston General Hospital & Harvard Medical School)
• Finalist SfN BCI Award 2012
• Winner 2012 IROS Best Video Award
• Winner 2012 IROS Best Jubilee Video Award
• Winner 2011 King-Sun Fu Best Transactions on Robotics Paper Award
• Winner 2012 George Giralt PhD Award (best European thesis in robotics)
• PhD. (Dr.-Ing.) with "summa cum laude" from RWTH Aachen
• Winner: euRobotics Technology Transfer Award 2011 (DLR LWR team together with KUKA LWR team)
• IROS 2010: Finalist Best Application Paper Award
• 3rd place Walter Reis Innovation Award 2010
• Finalist: Robotdalen Scientific Award 2009, "Honorable Mention"
• ICRA 2009: Best Service Robotics Paper Award
• IROS 2008: Best Application Paper Award
• 2008 Literati Best Paper Award
• 2008 Honours of the Elitenetwork Bavaria in Techology Management
• ICRA 2007: Best Video Award

• Invited Paper SAFECOMP 2013
• Invited Paper NEUROTECHNIX 2013
• 2 Invited Papers IROS2012
• Invited Paper ICRA2012
• Invited Paper ARSO2011
• Invited Paper IFAC2011
• Invited Paper Automatisierungstechnik at 2010
• Invited Paper IROS 2010
• Invited Paper IJRR2009

Professional service

Project activities

• Management board in FP7 IP SAPHARI

Standardization activities

• Since 2008 DIN representative and committee member of the ISO Working Group (WG) 7, Personal care robot

Organization

• Organizer & Chair: ERF2013:Safety in Physical Human-Robot-Cooperation - euRobotics Topic Group
• Program committee, Robotics: Science & Systems 2013, Berlin, Germany
• Associate Editor, ICRA 2013, Karlsruhe, Germany
• Organizer and Chair: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation: Workshop Human Robot Interaction (HRI) for Assistance and Industrial Robots. Scientific Knowledge, Standards and Regulatory Framework. How do I design for the real world? ICRA2013, Karlsruhe, Germany
• Human-Friendly Robotics, HFR2012: Co-Organizer
• Organizer and Chair: IEEE/RSJ IROS: Workshop Safety in pHRI
• Program committee, Robotics: Science & Systems 2012, Sydney, Australia
• Human-Friendly Robotics, HFR2011: Co-Organizer
• Organizer and Chair: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation: Workshop Towards Autonomous Physical Human-Robot Interaction, Shanghai, China
• Human-Friendly Robotics, HFR2010: Co-Organizer
• ICRA 2010: Session Chair 
• Robotics: Science and Systems 2010 Strategies and Evaluation for Mobile Manipulation in Household Environments
• Robotics: Science and Systems 2009 Workshop Mobile Manipulation in Human Environments, PC member
• Robotics: Science and Systems 2008 Manipulation Workshop: Intelligence in Human Environments, Co-Organizer

Reviewing

Books

• Handbook of Robotics, Springer Theory, Editor: Bruno Siciliano & Oussama Khatib

Journals

• IEEE Transaction on Robotics (T-RO)
• International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR)
• Advanced Robotics (AR)
• IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE)
• IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (T-IE)
• ASME Journal of Mechanical Design (ASME)
• IFAC Mechatronics (IFAC MEC)
• Robotica
• Adaptive Behavior (adb)
• Journal of Robotics and Automation (JRA)
• IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics (TMECH)

Conferences

• Associate Editor ICRA 2013
• International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
• International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
• International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR)
• IFAC World Congress (IFAC WC)
• IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (HUMANOIDS)
• IEEE Human-Robot Interaction

Academic teaching

• Current lectures
• Summer semesters 2010-2012: "Human-Friendly Robotics: Human factors in control and planning strategies" at TUM
• Winter semesters 2010/2011 and 2011/2012: "Dynamic Human-Robot Interaction" at TUM
• Winter semsters 2009/2010 and 2010/2011: "Robotics" at TUM