News & Highlights
Recent activities, talks, workshops, and achievements.
2025
Keynote at zenonIZE 2025
Delivered keynote with Lucas Punzenberger (COPA-DATA) on "Future of AI-driven automation and the path to more intelligent self-learning systems in industry" at zenonIZE 2025 in Salzburg Mozarteum Foundation.
Keynote Industrial AIINSPIRE Project - AI in Education
Partner in the INSPIRE project (Intelligent Novel Support for Personalized Instruction and Robust Evaluation in STEM Lessons at Primary School), funded by the State of Salzburg's "AI Research Salzburg 2025" initiative, led by Christina Egger (PH Salzburg).
Research Project Education AI2nd RL Bootcamp
Co-organizing the 2nd Reinforcement Learning Bootcamp at PLUS University Salzburg. The bootcamp features hands-on workshops on Advanced Policy Gradients, Actor-Critics, and Continuous Control.
Organizing EducationKeynote at iDSC'25
Delivered keynote "From Theory to Practice: Reinforcement Learning as the 21st-Century ML Paradigm" at the 6th Interdisciplinary Data Science Conference.
Keynote TalkRL4AA Workshop Hamburg
Co-organized the RL for Autonomous Accelerators workshop in Hamburg, bringing together researchers from CERN, DESY, KIT, and SLAC.
Organizing Workshop2024
1st RL Bootcamp
Successfully organized the first Reinforcement Learning Bootcamp at PLUS University with participants from academia and industry.
Organizing EducationTEDx Talk
Delivered TEDx talk on "AI is what we make it" at TEDxSalzburg, discussing the future of artificial intelligence and its societal impact.
TEDx Public OutreachRL4AA Workshop Salzburg
Hosted the RL for Autonomous Accelerators workshop in Salzburg, establishing a key platform for international collaboration.
Organizing WorkshopOngoing Activities
I organize the "RL Coffee" - a free monthly meetup held on the first Friday of each month. It provides a platform for reinforcement learning researchers and industry professionals to exchange ideas and collaborate through presentations and discussions.
Interested in participating? Check out the SARL Team Website for updates or contact me directly.
SARL WebsiteActive contract research projects with industry partners including:
- Palfinger - Hydraulic systems optimization
- Copa Data - Energy optimization and smart grids (DEOP, FOCUS)
- W&H Dentalwerk - Precision control in medical devices (RL-PD)
- Danieli - Steel manufacturing optimization
- STIWA Group - Assembly line automation