Curriculum Vitae

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Dr. Andreas Orthey is a Principal Robotics Scientist at Realtime Robotics, where he pioneers real-time motion planning solutions for industrial automation. His research career includes over 20 published papers in top-tier academic venues such as IJRR, TRO, or RAL and he teaches the course “Motion Planning” as Guest Lecturer at Technical University of Berlin. He earned his PhD in Computer Science and Robotics from the National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse, France, in 2015. His career includes a postdoc at the Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, a two-year JSPS-funded fellowship at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Japan, and a Feodor Lynen Return Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt foundation at the University of Stuttgart.

Professional Experience

• Principal Robotics Scientist
  Oct 2024 - Present
  Realtime Robotics, Boston, MA, USA / Berlin, Germany

• Staff Robotics Scientist
  July 2021 - Oct 2024
  Realtime Robotics, Boston, MA, USA / Berlin, Germany

• Guest Lecturer “Motion Planning”
  April 2022 - Present
  Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany

• Postdoctoral Researcher
  December 2019 - June 2021
  Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, Germany

• Research Fellow (Feodor Lynen Return Fellowship)
  December 2018 - November 2019
  University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

• Research Fellow (JSPS Fellowship)
  November 2016 - October 2018
  National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan

• Postdoctoral Researcher
  October 2015 - September 2016
  Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, USA

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Computer Science
  December 2015
  National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse, France

• Master of Science (MSc) in Computational Engineering
  September 2012, With Honors
  Technical University of Berlin, Germany

Academic Service

Technical Committees

• Associate Co-Chair TC for Algorithms for Planning and Control of Robot Motion (Since 2025)

Associate Editor

• IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (Since 2022)
• IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) (Since 2025)
• Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE) (Since 2025)

Program Committee

• World Symposium on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR), 2026, Link

Reviewer

• International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025
• IEEE Transactions on Robotics (TRO), 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026
• IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
• IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
• Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), 2016, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2026
• Robotics and Automation Letters (RAL), 2023, 2025
• Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2021, 2022, 2024
• World Symposium on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR), 2016, 2026
• International Symposium on Robotics Research (ISRR), 2019, 2022, 2024
• IEEE International Symposium on Multi-Robot & Multi-Agent Systems (MRS), 2021
• IEEE International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), 2014
• Swiss National Science Foundation, 2024