Dejan Milojevic

September 2024 - Present

Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer

ETH Zürich - Zürich, Switzerland
- Postdoctoral researcher in the group of Prof. Emilio Frazzoli at the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control.
- Leading an SNSF-funded research project on automated system-level co-design of mobile robots in the group of Prof. Emilio Frazzoli at the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control.
- Extending a framework initiated during my doctoral research toward more realistic and scalable robot design, with richer catalogs of hardware, perception, and planning components.
- Developing optimization methods for robot design across interconnected autonomy-stack components, balancing performance with cost, compute, and power for applications such as autonomous driving, delivery and warehouse robotics.
- Established a modular codebase with CI/CD, testing, and static analysis to support scalable research and development.
- Lecturer at ETH Zürich for the undergraduate course Control Systems II, with more than 300 students.

May 2019 - June 2024

Doctoral Researcher

Empa - Dübendorf, Switzerland
- Initiated and developed a framework for automated system-level co-design of mobile robots, supporting hardware-software selection to balance task performance with cost, compute, and power.
- Developed optimization methods and algorithms for sensor selection, placement, and holistic robot design, with a focus on the interaction between perception and decision-making.
- Built simulation and optimization frameworks for robot design, integrating full autonomy stacks with perception, planning, and control, alongside benchmarking pipelines and sensor-model development.
- Coordinated project execution across Empa and ETH Zürich and led stakeholder communication and technical presentations for the Automated Driving Sensor Testing Vehicle project with partners including including ASTRA, AXA, Embotech, ETH Zürich, Lexus, METAS, Orthotec and TCS.
- Conducted field tests with an automated vehicle under diverse weather conditions to evaluate lidar-, camera-, and radar-based perception for detection and localization.
- Head TA for Control Systems II, an undergraduate course with over 300 students.

December 2018 - April 2019

Software Engineer

Vay - Berlin, Germany
- Led the development of MATSim-based fleet simulations for remotely controlled vehicles to support business-case analysis of mobility-on-demand services.
- Developed algorithms for customer routing and vehicle allocation, including fleet rebalancing, parking, and remote-driver assignment under limited operator availability.
- Integrated audio sensors on the vehicle platform.

October 2017 - March 2018

Research Assistant

ETH Zürich - Zürich, Switzerland
- Developed a Java application to manage energy usage for electric buses in the group of Prof. Christopher Onder at the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control.

April 2016 - September 2016

Engineering Internship

Megasol Energie AG - Deitingen, Switzerland
- Automated part of the solar panel manufacturing process by installing a KUKA robotic arm to perform a tedious and difficult task.

January 2013 - February 2013

Workshop Internship

Schindler Aufzüge AG - Ebikon, Switzerland
- Developed hands-on skills in milling, turning, drilling, polishing, soldering, and welding.