Alexander Nettekoven

Biography

Alexander Nettekoven is a postdoctoral fellow with the Center for Autonomy at the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on the development and deployment of general-purpose robotic systems in real-world environments. He earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from UT Austin in 2022, where he also completed his M.Sc. Prior to that, he received a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from RWTH Aachen University in Germany.

Alex's research interests include the development and deployment of general-purpose robotic systems in real-world environments, such as vision-language-action models for robotic manipulation.