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Name Leonardo Maglanoc
Label Robotics & AI
Email leo.maglanoc@gmail.com

Work

  • 2025.09 - Present

    Munich, Germany

    Master Thesis Student
    Foundation Robotics
    Master’s thesis at a humanoid robotics startup on Language-Guided Dexterous Grasping for Task-Oriented Manipulation with 3D Foundation Models.
  • 2025.02 - 2025.08

    Munich, Germany

    AI/ML Research Intern
    BMW Group Research
    Development of neuro-inspired computing architecture called Oscillatory Neural Networks (ONNs) in collaboration with IBM. Executed a user study with a tactile hardware prototype and collected a dataset from 10 participants. Designed Python/PyTorch-based ONN simulators and applied them to the collected dataset as an ONN-based Human-Vehicle Interaction AI demonstrator.
  • 2023.04 - 2024.05

    Munich, Germany

    Robotics Research Assistant
    Technical University Munich
    Making physical human-robot interaction (pHRI) provably safe with formal verification. Implementation of kinematics and trajectory planning algorithms. Contributions to research paper in review for a top robotics journal (T-RO).
  • 2020.11 - 2021.04

    Munich, Germany

    CS Teaching Assistant
    Technical University Munich
    Teaching responsibilities for introduction to informatics. Basics of object-oriented programming with Java and general problem-solving in computer science. Correcting weekly coding homework and exams.

Education