Dr. Jorge Pena Queralta

Arbeit an der ZHAW

Tätigkeit

• Senior Lecturer, Reinforcement Learning
• Group Leader, Mobile Embodied Agents

Arbeits- und Forschungsschwerpunkte

• Agentic Embodied AI
• Reinforcement Learning in Mobile Robotics

Lehrtätigkeit

• Blockweek: Introduction to AI for Engineers
• MSE: Machine Learning
• BSc: Introduction to Machine Learning
• Continuing education: CAS Advanced Machine Learning and Machine Learning Operations

Lehrtätigkeit in der Weiterbildung

CAS Physical AI & Robotics

Berufserfahrung

• CTO
  DAAV
  07 / 2024 - 02 / 2025
• Postdoctoral Researcher
  ETH Zürich
  07 / 2023 - 06 / 2024
• University Teacher
  University of Turku, Finland
  08 / 2022 - 06 / 2023
• Project Researcher
  University of Turku, Finland
  08 / 2018 - 07 / 2022

Aus- und Weiterbildung

Ausbildung

• Postdoc / Reinforcement Learning in Assistive Robotics
  ETH Zurich
  07 / 2023 - 06 / 2024
• PhD / Robotics and Autonomous Systems
  University of Turku, Finland
  01 / 2019 - 12 / 2022
• Master of Engineering / Electronics and Communication Engineering
  Fudan University, China
  09 / 2016 - 07 / 2018
• Master Degree / Information and Communication Technologies
  University of Turku, Finland
  09 / 2016 - 07 / 2018
• Bachelor Degree / Mathematics
  Technical University of Catalonia | UPC BarcelonaTech
  09 / 2011 - 02 / 2016
• Bachelor Degree / Physics Engineering
  Technical University of Catalonia | UPC BarcelonaTech
  09 / 2011 - 02 / 2016

Netzwerk

Mitglied in Netzwerken

IEEE

ORCID digital identifier

ORCID ID: 0000-0003-3091-3217

Social Media

• Google Scholar
• LinkedIn

Medienpräsenz

WEF 2026: Davos Tech Summit Presentation

Projekte

• Explainable RL and Agentic Physical AI for Assistive Mobile Manipulation / Projektleiter:in / laufend
• Avatar Demo: VR-Steuerung für humanoiden Roboter / Projektleiter:in / laufend
• Talking Bots: Interactive Voice Interface for Humanoid Robots in Networking Events / Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen
• Robot Assistant with Physical Agentic AI / Projektleiter:in / abgeschlossen

Publikationen

Schriftliche Konferenzbeiträge, peer-reviewed

• Tchernin, C., Peña-Queralta, J., Chen, Y., & Paez-Granados, D. (2026). Posture control in personal mobility robots through pressure interfaces [Conference paper]. 2026 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII), 605–611. https://doi.org/10.1109/sii64115.2026.11404557
• Salimpour, S., Peña-Queralta, J., Paez-Granados, D., Heikkonen, J., & Westerlund, T. (2025, September 2). Sim-to-real reinforcement learning for local mobile robot navigation in dynamic environments. 2025 European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR). https://doi.org/10.1109/ecmr65884.2025.11163286

Weitere Publikationen

Salimpour, S., Fu, L., Rachwał, K., Bertrand, P., O’Sullivan, K., Jakob, R., Keramat, F., Militano, L., Toffetti Carughi, G., Edelman, H., & Peña Queralta, J. (2025). Towards embodied agentic AI : review and classification of LLM- and VLM-driven robot autonomy and interaction. arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2508.05294

Publikationen vor Tätigkeit an der ZHAW

• Comparison of middlewares in edge-to-edge and edge-to-cloud communication for distributed ROS 2 systems.
• Benchmarking ML approaches to UWB- based range-only posture recognition for human robot-interaction. IEEE Sensors Journal, 2024
• A customizable conflict resolution and attribute-based access control framework for multi-robot systems

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