Simon Stepputtis

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• 2025-present: Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech
• January 2025-August 2025: Project Scientist, Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute
• 2022-2025: Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute
• 2017-2021: Research Associate / Teaching Assistant, Arizona State University
• May 2021-October 2021: Resident Intern; X, the moonshot factory; Mountain View, California
• May 2018-August 2018: Robotics Intern, Bosch USA, Sunnyvale California

• June 2025: Best Paper Award, Generative Models x HRI Workshop @ RSS 2025
• May 2025: Best Paper Award, The 2nd Workshop on Nonverbal Cues for Human-Robot Cooperative Intelligence, ICRA 2025
• January 2019: Best Poster Award, Southwest Robotics Symposium 2019
• CIDSE PhD Fellowship (2017, 2018 and 2019), issued by Arizona State University for excellent research progress and strong academic work.
• January 2016: Best Video Award, IEEE-RAS 16th International Conference on Humanoid Robots for "Learning human-robot interactions from human-human demonstrations (with applications in Lego rocket assembly)"

• 2021: PhD, Computer Science,  Arizona State University
• 2016: MSc, Engineering and Computing, TU Bergakakemie Freiberg; Freiberg, Saxony, Germany
• 2015 BSc, Engineering and Computing, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Freiberg, Saxony, Germany