Hi, I am Olaf. I am a Ph.D. student at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics and Saarland University under the supervision of Dr. Adam Kortylewski and Prof. Dr. Christian Theobalt. I am part of ELLIS, co-supervised by Dr. Christian Rupprecht (VGG, University of Oxford).

• Generative models
• Computer vision
• Probabilistic machine learning

Normalizing Flows on the Product Space of SO(3) Manifolds for Probabilistic Human Pose Modeling O. Dünkel, T. Salzmann, F. Pfaff Accepted at CVPR 2024 [paper]




Joint Vehicle Trajectory and Cut-In Prediction on Highways using Output Constrained Neural Networks M. Brosowsky, P. Orschau, O. Dünkel, P. Elspas, D. Slieter, M. Zöllner Accepted at IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, 2021 [paper]

Sample-Specific Output Constraints for Neural Networks M. Brosowsky, F. Keck, O. Dünkel, M. Zöllner Accepted at AAAI 2021 [paper]

• July 2022 -- October 2022:
  Research Internship Vehicle Trajectory Prediction at VITA (EPFL)

• April 2020 -- July 2022:
  Founder, CTO, and Propulsion Engineer at mu-zero HYPERLOOP

• November 2019 -- April 2020:
  Bachelor's Thesis on Uncertainty Estimation in Vehicle Trajetory Prediction at Porsche AG

• April 2019 -- August 2019:
  Intern for Autonomous Driving and Deep Learning at Porsche AG

• October 2023 - present:
  Ph. D. student in Computer Science at the Universität des Saarlandes and the Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik
• 2020 - 2023:
  Master's Studies in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
  Specialization: Signal Processing and Robotics
• 2016 - 2020
  Bachelor's Studies in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology