Talks and Presentations

Below is a list of invited talks, conference talks, and guest lectures, sorted by date (most recent first). All talks are in-person if not marked as online.

• [35] Full-Scale Factory Automation RoboARCH: Robotics Acceleration with Computing Hardware and Systems Workshop, ICRA 2026 @ Vienna, Austria
  Invited talk | June 2026 | Link
• [34] Les Systèmes Multi-Robots École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS) @ Montreal, Canada
  Invited talk | May 2026
• [33] Scalable Task and Motion Planning for Multi-Robot Teams University of Alberta @ Edmonton, Canada
  Invited talk | May 2026
• [32] Motion Generation for Multi-Robot Systems University of Central Florida @ Orlando, Florida, USA
  Invited talk | March 2026
• [31] Multi-Robot Task and Motion Planning [Online] NVIDIA Seattle Robotics Lab @ Seattle, WA, USA
  Invited talk | March 2026
• [30] Motion Generation for Multi-Robot Systems [Online] Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) @ Shanghai, China
  Invited talk | March 2026
• [29] Motion Generation for Multi-Robot Systems Tampere University @ Tampere, Finland
  Invited talk | March 2026
• [28] Multi-Robot Task and Motion Planning [Online] Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Guangzhou (HKUST(GZ)) @ Guangzhou, China
  Invited talk | January 2026
• [27] Multi-Robot Task and Motion Planning Technical University of Berlin @ Berlin, Germany
  Invited talk | November 2025
• [26] Multi-Robot Systems University of Technology Nuremberg @ Nuremberg, Germany
  Invited talk | June 2025
• [25] Multi-Robot Motion Planning [Online] Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) @ Worcester, MA, USA
  Guest lecture | December 2024
• [24] Frontiers of Robot Motion Planning Berlin Robotics Meetup @ Berlin, Germany
  Invited talk | November 2024
• [23] Benchmarking for Motion Planning Applications Workshop on Evaluating Motion Planning Performance, IROS @ Kyoto, Japan
  Invited talk | October 2022 | Video | Link
• [22] Self-reconfigurable Robots [Online] Robotics, Perception and Learning Lab @ KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
  Invited talk | December 2021
• [21] Section Patterns [Online] IROS Conference @ Prague, Czechia
  Conference talk | September 2021
• [20] Multilevel Motion Planning [Online] RSS Workshop on Geometry and Topology in Robotics @ Virtual (RSS Conference)
  Invited talk | July 2021 | Video | Link
• [19] Sparse Multilevel Roadmaps [Online] ICRA Conference @ Xi'an, China
  Conference talk | June 2021
• [18] Computational Robotics [Online] University of Copenhagen @ Copenhagen, Denmark
  Invited talk | April 2021
• [17] Visualizing Local Minima in Multi-Robot Motion Planning [Online] WAFR Conference @ Oulu, Finland
  Conference talk | March 2021 | Video
• [16] Multilevel Motion Planning: Theory and Applications [Online] Rice University @ Houston, TX, USA
  Invited talk | February 2021
• [15] Motion Planning Explorer [Online] ICRA Conference @ Paris, France
  Conference talk | May 2020
• [14] Rapidly-Exploring Quotient-Space Trees International Symposium on Robotics Research (ISRR) @ Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi, Hanoi, Vietnam
  Conference talk | October 2019
• [13] Making Robotic Algorithms Transparent and Interactive BRAGFOST @ Hotel Schreiberhof, Munich, Germany
  Invited talk | September 2019
• [12] Simplification of High-Dimensional Spaces Humanoid Robots Lab at University of Bonn @ Bonn, Germany
  Invited talk | November 2018
• [11] As a Postdoc Abroad - Experiences from Two Years Japan Networking Event Alexander von Humboldt Foundation @ Maritim Hotel, Bonn, Germany
  Invited talk | November 2018
• [10] Quotient-Space Motion Planning IROS Conference @ Madrid Municipal Conference Centre, Madrid, Spain
  Conference talk | October 2018
• [9] Life of a Robotics Researcher Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Science Dialog @ Takezono Highschool, Tsukuba, Japan
  Guest lecture | June 2018
• [8] Quotient-Space Motion Planning Movement Generation and Control Group at Max-Planck Institute @ Tübingen, Germany
  Invited talk | May 2018
• [7] Making Ideas Stick Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Orientation Meeting @ Hotel Moterey Hanzomon, Tokyo, Japan
  Invited talk | February 2018
• [6] Robotics, Motion Planning and Topology Networking Event Alexander von Humboldt Foundation @ Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
  Invited talk | October 2016
• [5] Dimensionality Reduction in Motion Planning RBE 550 - Motion Planning @ Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, USA
  Guest lecture | February 2016
• [4] Motion Planning and Irreducible Trajectories LAAS-CNRS @ Toulouse, France
  Thesis defense | September 2015 | Video
• [3] Motion Planning and Irreducible Trajectories ICRA Conference @ Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, WA, USA
  Conference talk | May 2015
• [2] Irreducible Trajectories and Homotopy Motion Planning [Online] Robot Locomotion Group at Massachusetts Institute of Technology @ Cambridge, MA, USA
  Invited talk | February 2015
• [1] Towards Reactive Whole-Body Motion Planning in Cluttered Environments Humanoids Conference @ Historic Academy of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
  Conference talk | October 2013