Magdalena Yordanova
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Magdalena completed her bachelor’s and master’s studies at the Technical University of Berlin in Computer Engineering. During her work at Fraunhofer IPK and at the university she gained experience in different robotics fields, both working with industrial robot arms and mobile robots, which is now expanding to humanoid robots. Her research interests include cognitive robotics, automation, and machine learning. At SCIoI, Magdalena is working on Project 45B under the supervision of Prof. Verena Hafner in the Adaptive Systems group at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Inspired by nature, the research focuses on the role of plasticity in sensorimotor learning, dealing with the problem of catastrophic forgetting.
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Yordanova, M., & Hafner, V. V. (2026). Demonstration-Guided Reinforcement Learning for Continuous Sensorimotor Learning in Dynamic Environments. IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 1343(1), 012020. https://doi.org/10.1088/1757-899X/1343/1/012020
Yordanova, M., & Hafner, V. V. (2025). Memory-Feedback Controllers for Lifelong Sensorimotor Learning in Humanoid Robots. In O. Brock & J. Krichmar (Eds.), From Animals to Animats 17 (pp. 275–286). Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-71533-4_21
Yordanova, M., & Hafner, V. V. (2025). Human-in-the-Loop Lifelong Visuomotor Edge-Case Adaptation [Poster]. IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL).
Mellmann, H., Arbuzova, P., Kontogiorgos, D., Yordanova, M., Haensel, J. X., Hafner, V. V., & Bryson, J. J. (2024). Effects of Transparency in Humanoid Robots - A Pilot Study. Companion of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 750–754. https://doi.org/10.1145/3610978.3640613
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