I'm a PhD student in the Robot Learning Lab, supervised by Jan Peters and within the Empirical Inference Department of Bernhard Schölkopf. In January 2019, I completed my Master's thesis with Jan Peters and Dieter Büchler on applying Reinforcement Learning to learn playing table tennis with a muscle based robot arm in simulation. Recently, we were also able to apply a similar approach to learn returning balls with the real muscle based robot arm.
For the future of my PhD, I want to work towards Reinforcement Learning methods that help real robots learn increasingly complex and general skills.