User:TUDRG02/Sami Haddadin

Sami Haddadin (* 26. June 1980 in Neustadt am Rübenberge) is an electrical engineer, computer scientist, entrepreneur, and university Professor in the field of robotics and machine intelligence. Since April 2018, he is the director of the Munich School of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MSRM) at the Technical University of Munich and holds the Chair of Robotics and Systems intelligence.

Life
Sami Haddadin was born in 1980 as the eldest of three children to a Jordanian doctor and a Finnish nurse. He grew up with his sister and brother in his birthplace Neustadt am Rübenberge, and completed his Abitur in 1999 in Stolzenau at the local high school.

Haddadin studied electrical engineering and informatics at the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University of Hanover, the University of Hagen, the University of Oulu in Finland and in Munich.

He holds degrees in electrical engineering, computer science and technology management from the Technical University of Munich and the Center for Digital Technology and Management (CDTM), a joint institute of the Technical University of Munich and the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich. After that, he worked in various functions as a research assistant at DLR. He received his doctorate summa cum laude from RWTH Aachen University in 2011. His dissertation was recognized as the best European dissertation in robotics.

From April 2014 to April 2018, Haddadin held the chair of the Institute of Automatic Control at the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University Hannover. In 2018, he accepted the call as professor and director of the Munich School of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MSRM) at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). Previously, he turned down offers from various other universities, such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) or Stanford University.

He has published more than 200 scientific articles in international journals and conferences. He has received numerous awards for his scientific work. His "Tactile Robot" patent is the latest entry in the collection "Milestone made in Germany" (DPMA). Sami Haddadin's work is regularly exhibited in renowned science and art museums, such as the Deutsches Museum and the Pinakothek der Moderne. For the latter, Sami Haddadin and his team conceived the exhibition KI.ROBOTIK.DESIGN, in which the emergence, present and future of robotics and AI are shown and made tangible.

He is married and has three children.

Awards and Honors
In 2021 Sami Haddadin was accepted as a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina

For 2019, Haddadin was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Prize. Also in 2019 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech).

On November 29, 2017, together with his brother Simon and Sven Parusel, he was awarded the German Future Prize, endowed with 250,000 euros, by Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. The Prize was awarded to the concept "for inexpensive, flexible and intuitively operable robots", which turn automats into helpers to humans.

In 2015, Haddadin was awarded the Alfried-Krupp Sponsorship Award for Young University Teachers. The prize granted Haddadin 1 million euros to advance with his work independently over a period of five years

In 2014, Haddadin was appointed professor at the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University in Hanover in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. At that time, he was the youngest scientist in Germany to hold a chair for control engineering.

In 2012, Haddadin received the Georges Giralt PhD Award for conducting Europe's best doctoral thesis in robotics.

Startups in robotics

 * 2016 – Founder of Franka Emika GmbH, Munich
 * 2014 – 2016 CEO & Founder of KBee AG, Munich
 * 2012 – 2014 CEO & Founder of Kastanienbaum GmbH, Munich

Memberships and Groups

 * Since 2021, member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
 * Since 2020 Chairman of the Bavarian AI Council
 * Since 2019, member of the German National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech)
 * Since 2019, member of Zukunftsrat der Bayerischen Wirtschaft (Council of the Future Bavarian Economy)
 * 2019 - 2020, member of Kommission Niedersachsen 2030 (Lower Saxony Commission)
 * 2018 - 2020, Expert Member of the the Study Commission (dt. Enquete-Kommission) "Artificial Intelligence – Social Responsibility and Economic, Social and Ecological Potential", German Parliament.
 * 2018 - 2019, member of the EU High-Level Industrial Roundtable "Industry 2030"
 * Since 2018, member of the EU High-Level Expert Group on "Artificial Intelligence"

Together with the region of Hanover and Leibniz University, Haddadin developed the "Robot Factory" (Roboterfabrik) training program, which started in October 2017 at various schools

Publications (selection)

 * Google Scholar Profile of Sami Haddadin
 * Publications of the TUM RSI - Chair of Robotics and Systems Intelligence (Lehrstuhl für Robotik und Systemintelligenz)


 * Kühn, J., Bagnato, C., Burdet, E., Haddadin S. Arm movement adaptation to concurrent pain constraints. Scientific Reports 11, 6792 (2021).
 * M. Tröbinger et. al. and S. Haddadin, "Introducing GARMI - A Service Robotics Platform to Support the Elderly at Home: Design Philosophy, System Overview and First Results," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 5857-5864, July 2021.
 * McLennan, S., Fiske, A., Celi, L., Müller, R., Harder, J.,Ritt, K., Haddadin, S., Buyx, A. (2020): An embedded ethics approach for AI development. Nature Machine Intelligence 2 (7), 488-490.
 * Haddadin, S., Johannsmeier, L., & Ledezma, F. D. (2018): Tactile robots as a central embodiment of the Tactile Internet. Proceedings of the IEEE, 107(2), 471-487.
 * Haddadin, S., Krieger, K., Albu-Schäffer, A., & Lilge, T. (2018): Exploiting elastic energy storage for “blind” cyclic manipulation: Modeling, stability analysis, control, and experiments for dribbling. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 34(1), 91-112.
 * Tomic T, Ott C, Haddadin S: "External Wrench Estimation, Collision Detection, and Reflex Reaction for Flying Robots". IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 2017; 33(6): 1467-1482.
 * Haddadin S., De Luca A., Albu-Schäffer A. (2017): "Robot Collisions: A Survey on Detection, Isolation, and Identification". IEEE Transactions on Robotics. 33(6):    1292-1312.
 * Haddadin S., Croft E. (2016) Physical Human–Robot Interaction. In: Siciliano B., Khatib O. (eds) Springer Handbook of Robotics. Springer Handbooks. Springer, Cham.
 * Haddadin S. (2014): “Towards Safe Robots”. Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics 90“, Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
 * Haddadin S, Haddadin S, Khoury A, Rokahr T, Parusel S, Burgkart R, Bicchi A, Albu-Schäffer. A (2012): "On making robots understand safety: Embedding injury knowledge into control". The International Journal of Robotics Research. 31(13): 1578–1602.
 * Hochberg LR, Bacher D, Jarosiewicz B, Masse NY, Simeral JD, Vogel J, Haddadin S, Liu J, Cash SS, van der Smagt P, et al (2012): "Reach and grasp by people with tetraplegia using a neurally controlled robotic arm". Nature 485: 372–375.
 * Yang, C., Ganesh, G., Haddadin, S., Parusel, S., Albu-Schaeffer, A., & Burdet, E. (2011). Human-like adaptation of force and impedance in stable and unstable interactions. IEEE transactions on robotics, 27(5), 918-930.
 * Haddadin, S, Albu-Schäffer A, Hirzinger G (2009): "G. Requirements for safe robots: Measurements, analysis and new insights". The International Journal of Robotics Research.  28(11-12): 1507-1527.

Weblinks

 * Videos with the participation of Sami Haddadin in the AV-Portal der Technischen Informationsbibliothek
 * TUM RSI YouTube Channel - Chair of Robotics and Systems Intelligence
 * Sami Haddadin on the TUM web server