TIM STAHL

Making
complex things
work.

My background is engineering. I connect people, priorities and technology – from understanding the details to delivering the whole.

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Tim Stahl
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Deep in the details.
Clear on direction.

I enjoy hard technical problems, but good engineering rarely happens in isolation. Building useful things also means aligning teams, making decisions and taking responsibility for how ideas work in practice.

Professional background

Never stop
learning.

Engineering, research, company building and leading technical teams.

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Experience

2010–TODAY
2021–now

Co-Founder & Head of Geometric Perception

driveblocks GmbH / Munich

Bringing engineering and team leadership together for autonomy beyond structured roads.
2016–2021

Research Associate / PhD

Technical University of Munich / Munich

Research in autonomous driving, control and safety.
2018–2021

Cooperative PhD Student

TÜV SÜD / Garching

Highly automated driving.
2012–2014

Student Employee

Krones / Rosenheim

Packaging and palletizing robotics.
2010

Student Employee

HAWE Hydraulik / Freising

Hydraulic pump manufacturing.

Education

ACADEMIC PATH
2022
Ph.D. / Automated DrivingTechnical University of Munich
2016
M.Sc. / Electrical and Computer EngineeringTechnical University of Munich
2014
B.Eng. / MechatronicsRosenheim University of Applied Sciences
SELECTED RECOGNITION

Some moments
worth remembering.

2021

1st place / $1M prize

Indy Autonomous Challenge

The TUM team won at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on 23 October 2021, with an average speed of 218.8 km/h.

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The final run took place at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on 23 October 2021. The TUM team’s average speed of 218.8 km/h secured first place and the $1 million award.

Indy Autonomous Challenge award and team archive
The winning team / 2021 archive
2016

Master thesis

VDI Award

Recognized for a game-theoretic approach to close-proximity human-robot collaboration.

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The VDI Award recognized the master’s thesis “Development of a human-robot collaboration algorithm based on game theory”. The work considered how human and robot action strategies can be selected during close-proximity collaboration.

VDI award ceremony
VDI Award / 2016
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2014

Bachelor thesis

VDE Award

Recognized for a method to predict the performance of palletizing robots.

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The award was given in the science category for the bachelor’s thesis “Development of a tool for performance prediction of palletizing robots”. The ceremony took place at the Munich VDE Evening in November 2014.

VDE award ceremony
VDE Award / 2014
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BEYOND WORK / OTHER INTERESTS

Curiosity doesn't clock out.

From building hardware and open-source tools to volunteering with the fire service, I like working on things that are useful beyond a screen.