Titus Spielvogel

I'm a multimodal AI and robotics researcher. I recently graduated from UNC Chapel Hill with an M.S. in Computer Science, specializing in Robotics and Machine Learning. Before that, I completed my B.S. in Computer Science at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. I also spent over four years as a research assistant at Fraunhofer IOSB. I've been fortunate to receive a Fulbright Scholarship during my studies.

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Research

I'm interested in robotics and machine learning. I am eager to bring general intelligence to robots. My recent work has primarily focused on different areas of machine learning, but also robotics.

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Enhancing Vision-Language-Action Model Evaluation in Simulation
Titus Spielvogel
2025
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An extension of an existing benchmark for evaluating Vision Language Action Models in simulation that is more comprehensive, faster, and easier to extend.

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Natural Language Instruction for Human-Robot Collaboration
Mason Laney, Maximilian Nabokow, Titus Spielvogel, Bao-Nhi Vu
2024
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An LLM-based natural language control interface for Pollen Robotics' Reachy robot, allowing users to control the robot through voice. A user study compares it against VR teleoperation.

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Video-to-Music Generation
Titus Spielvogel, Scott Merrill
2025
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A model that generates music aligned to a given video by fusing optical-flow motion cues with CLIP-based visual embeddings to condition an autoregressive music decoder.

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Safe Reinforcement Learning: Reactive Shield Synthesis
Titus Spielvogel, Raj Patel
2024
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A holistic view of reactive shield synthesis that unifies existing literature and provides a complete formal proof for the construction of winning regions in safety g.

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Imposter Email Detection in Clinical Study Recruitment Using Large Language Models
Titus Spielvogel
2025
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Explores LLM-based in-context learning to detect imposter emails in clinical study recruitment, evaluating prompt design, few-shot setups, and weak supervision strategies.

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Defense Strategies Against Persuasion-Based Jailbreaking
Mason Laney, Titus Spielvogel
2024
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A demonstration that current LLMs (late 2024) are still susceptible to persuasion-based jailbreaking, along with an investigation into defense strategies.

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Safety-driven Schedule Synthesis for Cyber-Physical System
Titus Spielvogel, Raj Patel
2024
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Proposes two scheduling policies for Cyber-Physical Systems in dynamic environments that maximize processor utilization while maintaining a safety margin.

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Skill-Acquisition in LLM Agents
Isai Garcia-Baza, Scott Merrill, Titus Spielvogel
2024
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An investigation into how LLM Agents can acquire new skills from a set of primitive actions that help to solve tasks in a specific environment.

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Decentralized Identities in the Context of Connected Car
Philip Heller, Paul Hoger, Titus Spielvogel, Tim Peters
2023
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A proof of concept for decentralized identities in the context of car rental, consisting of microservice-based applications that issue and verify digital driver licenses.

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Verifiable Credential Issuance and Presentation in the Context of Decentralized Identities
Titus Spielvogel
2023
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An in-depth analysis of decentralized identity protocols (OpenID4CI, OpenID4VP, SIOPv2, OAuth 2.0, OIDC) and a discussion of their applicability in a proof of concept.

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