Nicolas Schischka

I am a PhD student at the Robot Learning Lab at the University of Freiburg, supervised by Abhinav Valada. As part of the ELLIS PhD Program, I am co-supervised by Alexandre Alahi at EPFL.

Previously, I obtained my Master's degree in Robotics, Cognition, Intelligence with high distinction at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in cooperation with AUDI AG. During this time, I worked with Benjamin Busam, Daniel Roth, Nassir Navab and Federico Tombari and spent some time at CARIAD, in Montréal and interning in the Silicon Valley. Before, I graduated with distinction from a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from TUM.

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News
  • 07/2025 I start my PhD at the Robot Learning Lab, led by Abhinav Valada, as part of the ELLIS PhD Program!
Research
DynaMoN: Motion-Aware Fast And Robust Camera Localization for Dynamic Neural Radiance Fields
Nicolas Schischka*, Hannah Schieber*, Mert Asim Karaoglu*, Melih Gorgulu, Florian Grötzner, Alexander Ladikos, Nassir Navab, Daniel Roth, Benjamin Busam
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2025
(* equal contribution)
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DynaMoN combines a dynamics-aware camera-based localization method with a dynamic NeRF.

Autonomous Vehicles Path Planning Under Temporal Logic Specifications
Akshay Dhonthi, Nicolas Schischka, Ernst Moritz Hahn, Vahid Hashemi,
Brazilian Symposium on Formal Methods (SBMF), 2024
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This paper presents a framework that uses signal temporal logic to mathematically guarantee safe and compliant path planning for self-driving cars.

Teaching


Co-organizer, FreiCAR: Practical Autonomous Driving, Winter 2025/2026



Academic Services
  • Conference Reviewer: ICRA'25, ICRA'26, IROS'25
  • Journal Reviewer: RA-L

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