Bio

Dejan Milojevic is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in Prof. Emilio Frazzoli's group at the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control at ETH Zürich. He received his Ph.D. in robotics, affiliated with both the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control at ETH Zürich and the Chemical Energy Carriers and Vehicle Systems Laboratory at Empa. He obtained his BSc. and MSc. in Mechanical Engineering from ETH Zürich. Dejan has conducted research at Stanford University under the supervision of Prof. Marco Pavone and has professional experience as a software engineer at Vay in Berlin, Germany. His research focuses on the co-design of embodied intelligence systems, with a particular interest in sensor selection and placement. In the broader context of mobile robots, he explores perception, decision-making, and control. Dejan is also keen on advancing uncertainty estimation and explainable AI within machine learning.

Resume/CV (updated February 2025)

News

Mar. 14, 2025 I’m excited to share that our paper "CODEI: Resource-Efficient Task-Driven Co-Design of Perception and Decision Making for Mobile Robots Applied to Autonomous Vehicles" has been accepted in IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO) . You can download the preprint on arXiv or from the ETH Zürich Research Collection .
Feb. 19, 2025 I’m excited to be a lecturer at ETH Zürich for the course Control Systems II. This undergraduate course, with over 300 students, covers Modern Control Theory, Nonlinear Control, and an Introduction to Model Predictive Control. Additionally, we provide interactive Python Jupyter Notebooks to reinforce learning, offer practical experience, and enhance students’ coding skills.
Nov. 12, 2024 My PhD thesis is online and can be downloaded here.
Oct. 3, 2024 I gave a talk at the Zardini lab at MIT.
Sep. 2, 2024 I'm excited to continue working on the co-design of robots, addressing the open challenges alongside a new PhD student, whom I'll be mentoring as I transition into my postdoctoral researcher role at ETH Zürich.
May 22, 2024 I'm happy to share that I successfully defended my doctoral thesis at ETH Zürich, titled "Co-design of Mobile Robots: Integrating Perception Systems and Motion Planning for Task-specific Optimization".
Sep. 14, 2023 Our research on autonomous vehicles at ETH Zürich under Prof. Emilio Frazzoli and at Empa under Dr. Miriam Elser was featured in Einstein, a science show on Swiss national television SRF. The episode can be viewed here.
Apr. 27, 2021 Our research on vision tests for autonomous cars at Empa under Dr. Miriam Elser was featured in the research magazine Empa Quarterly 70.