Oliver Schön
Embodied AI is entering the real world, unleashing systems we no longer fully understand. Control theory is how we anchor them.
Oliver Schön is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Algorithmic Control Laboratory (IfA), developing methods at the intersection of formal methods and machine learning to enable safe and trustworthy control of autonomous systems under uncertainty. He completed his PhD at Newcastle University (UK) in the same field under the supervision of Prof. Sadegh Soudjani. During his BSc and MSc in Mechanical Engineering at Paderborn University (Germany), he completed an exchange semester at the University of South-Eastern Norway, worked at Bosch Corporate Research, and served as a Research Assistant at the Heinz Nixdorf Institute (Germany). His work on scalable, physics-informed kernel methods aims to bridge the gap between simulation and reality, supporting the certification and market adoption of next-generation autonomous systems. He has received several competitive stipends and awards across science and engineering, including the Newcastle University Doctoral Thesis Medal 2025.
