Jakub Suliga

Machine Learning & Robotics · Karlsruhe

Hi, I’m Jakub Suliga. I am an M.Sc. Computer Science student at KIT and a research assistant at the KIT Intuitive Robots Lab in Karlsruhe. My current research focuses on world models for robotics.

My broader interests include world models, robot learning, embodied AI, and vision-language-action models.

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Publications

2026

NeurIPS 2026 Robot Learning Workshop · Oral

Few-Shot Residual Adaptation of Pretrained Latent World Models

Jakub Suliga, Pankhuri Vanjani, Nisarga Nilavadi, Wolfram Burgard, Rudolf Lioutikov

2026

CoRL · Robotics · 2026

SPARC: Reliable Spatial Annotations from Robot Demonstrations at Scale

Nils Blank, Paul Mattes, Maximilian Xiling Li, Jakub Suliga, Thomas Roth, Moritz Reuss, Pankhuri Vanjani, Rudolf Lioutikov

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2026

arXiv · Vision-Language-Action · 2026

DAM-VLA: Decoupled Asynchronous Multimodal Vision Language Action Model

Pankhuri Vanjani, Zhuoyue Li, Jakub Suliga, Moritz Reuss, Gianluca Geraci, Xinkai Jiang, Rudolf Lioutikov

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2026

Human-in-the-Loop Learning · 2026

Correct Robots Before They Make Mistakes: Proactive Human-in-the-Loop Intervention via Preference Learning

Xinkai Jiang, Jing Jiang, Hongyi Zhou, Pankhuri Vanjani, Ahmad Baki, Jakub Suliga, Ge Li, Zhuoyue Li, Gerhard Neumann, Rudolf Lioutikov

2026

RSS 2026 Workshop on Dexterous Manipulation

Touch Improves Learning Dexterous Grasping from Demonstration

Niklas Leukroth, Pankhuri Vanjani, Jakub Suliga, Ken Nakahara, Rudolf Lioutikov, Roberto Calandra

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Work Experience

Research Assistant

KIT Intuitive Robots Lab ↗

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Research on world models, vision-language-action models and multimodal policies for real-robot manipulation (Prof. Rudolf Lioutikov).

  • Trained and evaluated VLA models, world models and diffusion policies (X-VLA, GR00T N1.5, X-WAM, V-JEPA 2-AC, DUET-DINO) in simulation (LIBERO, RoboCasa, RoboTwin, RMBench, ManiFeel) and on real Franka robots.
  • Built a control proxy and client–server communication for Franka robot control and improved the lab’s real-robot controllers.
  • Integrated tactile encoders into manipulation policies and evaluated them on offline datasets (RSS 2026 workshop); integrated a tactile simulation framework into Isaac Gym and Isaac Lab and explored audio as an input modality.
  • Co-wrote the DAM-VLA paper and contributed simulation experiments and evaluations; collected data and ran evaluations for SPARC.

Working Student · Software Development

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  • Contributed to the open-source Eclipse JDT, Eclipse Platform and Eclipse SWT projects.
  • Designed and implemented a custom Eclipse IDE feature; profiled (VisualVM) and optimized the performance of Java applications.
  • Investigated and fixed bugs in an Eclipse-based development environment.

Tutor for Software Engineering

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Guided students through practical software engineering coursework.

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Education

M.Sc. Computer Science

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

B.Sc. Computer Science

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Thesis: Few-Shot Residual Adaptation of Pretrained Latent World Models, accepted as an oral presentation at the NeurIPS 2026 Robot Learning Workshop.

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