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Lukas Schneider

Lukas Schneider

Experience & Education

2023-2025
Co-founder and CTO of Aedilic.
2023
3-months internship at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, DLR). There, I implemented a model-based trajectory planner for quadcopters. I further built a reinforcement learning framework for quadcopter control with successful sim2real transfer.
2021-2023
Master of Science at ETH Zurich in Robotics, Systems and Control. For my master's thesis, I trained and deployed deep learning models on the ANYmal robot at the Robotic Systems Lab. There, I had the pleasure to work with Jonas Frey and Takahiro Miki on risk-sensitive distributional RL for legged locomotion.
2018-2021
Bachelor of Science at TU Darmstadt in computer science. In the final year, I mostly focused on robotics and machine learning. During this time, I conducted two semester projects implementing an efficient chess move generator and AlphaZero and wrote my bachelor's thesis on Distributional RL in Monte-Carlo Tree Search under expert guidance from Carlo D'Eramo and Tuan Dam.
Working student at secunet Security Networks AG, developing internal tooling.
2017
2-week internship at secunet Security Networks AG.
2-week internship at Media Secure GmbH, where I build internal tooling to analyze VoIP systems for vulnerabilities.

Pet Projects

nonescape  -- open-source detection model for AI-generated images.
nanograd  -- minimal auto-differentiation engine in Rust.
react-sounds  -- react library with ai-generated sound effects.
aithena  -- chess move generator and AlphaZero implementation.
LMP  -- simulator for a hardvard architecture microprocessor with custom instruction set.

Publications

(ICRA 2024) Learning Risk-Aware Quadrupedal Locomotion using Distributional RL

Lukas Schneider, Jonas Frey, Takahiro Miki, Marco Hutter

(ICML 2025) Monte-Carlo tree search with uncertainty propagation via optimal transport

Tuan Dam, Pascal Stenger, Lukas Schneider, Joni Pajarinen, Carlo D'Eramo, Odalric-Ambrym Maillard

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