Short Bio
Antonia Holsten is a PhD candidate in Prof. Emilio Frazzoli’s group at the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control (IDSC) at ETH Zürich, where she works on reinforcement learning, game theory, and control-theoretic methods for the design of fair and efficient socio-technical multi-agent systems in the mobility and power grid domain.
She earned her MSc in Computer Science from the University of Bremen in 2024, following the completion of her BSc at Technische Universität Dresden in 2021. During her master’s program, Antonia was awarded a JASSO scholarship to join the JUSST Research Exchange at the University of Electro-Communications (UEC) in Tokyo from fall 2022 to spring 2023. Subsequently, she joined the Nature-Inspired Computing Lab at UEC as a research student to develop her master’s thesis.
Currently, she contributes to the ongoing development of the Karma Economies project—a token-based mechanism for fair automated resource allocation grounded in the principle of give-and-take.
Education
Education
PhD Student Nov. 2024 – present
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH)
Zürich, Switzerland
Research Student Oct. 2023 – Jul. 2024
The University of Electro-Communications (UEC)
Tokyo, Japan
JUSST Research Exchange Oct. 2022 – Sep. 2023
The University of Electro-Communications (UEC)
Tokyo, Japan
Supported by the JASSO scholarship
MSc in Computer Science Oct. 2021 – Aug. 2024
University of Bremen (UB)
Bremen, Germany
BSc in Computer Science Oct. 2018 – Mar. 2021
Technische Universität Dresden (TUD)
Dresden, Germany
Research Projects
Research Projects
Research Assistant Oct. 2022 – Oct. 2024
Robotics Group, University of Bremen &
Robotics Innovation Center, DFKI
Bremen, Germany
Project: PhysWM
Task: Development and analysis of simulation-to-reality algorithms with Python and Pybullet.
Research Assistant Apr. 2022 – Aug. 2022
Institute for Artificial Intelligence
University of Bremen
Bremen, Germany
Project: RoboKudo
Task: Development of a robot perception framework for manipulation tasks with Python and ROS.
Research Assistant Oct. 2021 – Mar. 2022
Robotics Group
University of Bremen
Bremen, Germany
Project: TransFIT
Task: Development of a robot interface for closed-loop control in Python.
Research Assistant Nov. 2018 – Oct. 2019
Laboratory of Knowledge Architecture
Technische Universität Dresden
Dresden, Germany
Project: Data4City
Task: Development of a dashboard for data analysis using JavaScript, Python and React.
Teaching Experience
Teaching Experience
Tutor Oct. 2020 – Mar. 2021
Chair of Software Technology
Technische Universität Dresden (TUD)
Dresden, Germany
Course: Software Project, BSc Computer Science
Task: Support and guidance of a student group within a software development project for the BSc course.
Theses
Theses
Master Thesis Feb. 2024 – Jul. 2024
Robotics Group
University of Bremen (UB)
Bremen, Germany
In cooperation with:
Nature-Inspired Computing Lab
The University of Electro-Communications (UEC)
Tokyo, Japan
Title: “Exploration via Constructive Disagreement: Diversity in Ensemble-based Behavior Learning using Niching Migratory Multi-Swarm Optimization.”
Bachelor Thesis Oct. 2020 – Jan. 2021
Interactive Media Lab
Technische Universität Dresden (TUD)
Dresden, Germany
In cooperation with:
elevait GmbH & Co. KG
Dresden, Germany
Title: “Visual Analysis of the Translation Invariance of a Handwritten Text Recognition Model.”
Work Experience
Work Experience
Working Student (PT) Apr. 2020 – Sep. 2021
elevait GmbH & Co. KG
Dresden, Germany
Task: Visual analysis of machine learning models for handwritten text recognition.
Intern (PT) Oct. 2019 – Feb. 2020
3m5. Media GmbH
Dresden, Germany
Task: Development of a server monitoring application using Spring, Kotlin and React.
Working Student (FT) Sep. 2019
HEC GmbH
Bremen, Germany
Task: Development of a VR application for real estate using Unity and C# on Oculus Rift.
Software Developer (FT) Jan. 2018 – Aug. 2018
HEC GmbH
Bremen, Germany
Task: Development of industrial AR/VR applications with Unity and C# on Hololens and Vive.
Antonia V. V. Holsten 