News

  • Sep, 2023. My article on vision-based autonomous drone racing is on the cover of Nature!
  • July, 2023. I gave a keynote at the Conference of Basic Sciences in Beijing.
  • Jan, 2023. Three papers accepted at ICRA 2023!
  • Jan, 2023. Our survey on drone racing is finally out! You can check it out here.
  • July, 2022. I gave a keynote on agile flight at a robotics seminar at MIT!
  • June, 2022. I won the Georges Giralt PhD Award!
  • June, 2022. One paper accepted to Science Robotics!

Awards

  • Georges Giralt PhD Award , the most prestigious recognition for a dissertation on robotics in Europe, 2022.
  • Outstanding Reviewer Award Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2022.
  • Best Paper Award Honorable Mention IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO), 2020.
  • Best Paper Award Finalist Conference on Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM-3D), 2020.
  • Best Paper Award Finalist Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), 2020.
  • Best System Paper Award Conference on Robotic Learning (CoRL), 2018.
  • ETH-Medal for Outstanding Master Thesis, 2017.

Selected Publications

The following are an informative sample of my publications. A complete list of publications can be found on my Google Scholar profile and my Publications page.

Drone Acrobatics

Deep Drone Acrobatics

Elia Kaufmann, Antonio Loquercio, Rene Ranftl, Matthias Mueller, Vladlen Koltun, Davide Scaramuzza.

Robotics, Science, and Systems (RSS), 2020

Education

PhD in Robot Learning.

ETH and University of Zurich, 2021. Summa cum laude. I was funded by a series of Intel Research Grants and NCCR robotics. I won the Georges Giralt Award for my work, the most prestigious recognition for a PhD dissertation in robotics in Europe.