In the coming years, the ELLIS Unit Freiburg will deepen its partnership with the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), one of the top universities for robotics research in the world. We are establishing an exchange program in which students from the 4th semester of Bachelor’s in computer science will be eligible to participate. Our goal is to involve bachelor’s students in research at an early stage, where they will have the opportunity to work with leading experts for a period of three months at CMU.
The RISS team at CMU has been organizing the exchange with other universities and several countries very successfully since 2006!
Are you interested in such a research stay? Contact us with a short letter of motivation and we will guide you through the application process. Applications should be submitted to both DAAD and RISS.
Please include the following in your letter of motivation:
- Name
- Semester
- Confirmation of your availability for a research stay in USA from June 1 to August 9, 2026
- Motivation for participating in the RISS program
- Which research field are you interested and why? (Please select at most two)
1. Simultaneous Localization and Mapping
2. State Estimation
3. Aerial Robotics
4. Motion Planning
5. Computer Vision
6. Robot Perception
7. Autonomous Driving
8. Robot Learning for Manipulation
9. Learning from Demonstration
10. Medical Robotics
11. Reinforcement Learning
12. Automated Machine Learning
13. Hyperparameter Optimization
- Where do you see yourself professionally 2 years after your bachelor’s degree?
Application infomation
Deadline DAAD Rise Weltweit: November 30, 2025
Deadline CMU RISS: January 21, 2026
