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From research interns to PhD students, postdocs, and beyond. See how ARENA Lab members have grown and achieved.

Open Source2025

External Collaborator

Key contributor to 4 major platform papers across RSS, ICRA, and IROS.

Related Publications

●Arena-Rosnav 5.0: A Photorealistic ROS2 Simulation Framework for Developing and ... · Robotics Science and Systems 2025, Los Angeles, USA

●Arena-Rosnav 4.0: A Comprehensive ROS2 Platform for Human-Centric Navigation and... · ICRA

●Arena-Rosnav 3.0: Advancing Social Navigation in Collaborative and Highly Dynami... · Robotics Science and Systems 2024, Delft, Netherlands

PhD Admission2025

Research Assistant → PhD Student

Co-authored 4 papers. Promoted from research assistant to fully-funded PhD student.

Related Publications

●Arena-Rosnav 3.0: Advancing Social Navigation in Collaborative and Highly Dynami... · Robotics Science and Systems 2024, Delft, Netherlands

●Arena-Rosnav 2.0: A Development and Benchmarking Platform for Robot Navigation i... · IROS

●Arena-Bench: A Benchmarking Suite for Obstacle Avoidance Approaches on Highly Dy... · IROS

Published Paper2024

PhD Student → Postdoc

Published 4 papers at top venues (RSS, ICRA, IROS) during PhD. Now postdoc at ARENA Lab.

“Working on the Arena platform gave me the chance to lead major research contributions and grow as an independent researcher.”

Related Publications

●Arena-Bench 2.0: A Comprehensive Benchmark of Social Navigation Approaches in Co... · IROS

●Arena-Rosnav 5.0: A Photorealistic ROS2 Simulation Framework for Developing and ... · Robotics Science and Systems 2025, Los Angeles, USA

●Arena-Rosnav 4.0: A Comprehensive ROS2 Platform for Human-Centric Navigation and... · ICRA

Published Paper2024

PhD Student → Postdoc

Co-authored 5 papers at IEEE ICRA, IROS, and RSS. Transitioned to postdoctoral research.

Related Publications

●Arena-Rosnav 2.0: A Development and Benchmarking Platform for Robot Navigation i... · IROS

●Arena-Bench: A Benchmarking Suite for Obstacle Avoidance Approaches on Highly Dy... · IROS

●All-in-One: A DRL-based Control Switch Combining State-of-the-art Navigation Pla... · ICRA

Award2023

PhD Student → Postdoc

IROS 2021 Best Technical Paper Award nominee. Now postdoctoral researcher at ARENA Lab.

“The interdisciplinary nature of ARENA Lab allowed me to combine semantic AI with spatial reasoning in ways I never expected.”

Related Publications

●Spatial Imagination With Semantic Cognition for Mobile Robots · IROS

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