I am a co-founder of KE:SAI, a final-year PhD student at the Autonomous Vision Group in Tübingen, and a Research Intern with the NVIDIA Autonomous Vehicle Research Group in Zürich.
Bio: I received my BSc in Bioinformatics in 2021 and my MSc in Computer Science in 2023 (with distinction) at the University of Tübingen. The highlight of my master's education was developing a vehicle motion planner that won the 2023 nuPlan challenge. In 2024, I started my PhD at the Autonomous Vision Group, supervised by Prof. Andreas Geiger, and joined the International Max Planck Research School for Intelligent Systems. My research focuses on applications of data-driven simulation for autonomous vehicles, where I have published methods on scalable evaluation of end-to-end systems, generative modeling for driving scenarios, and simulation-based training with reinforcement learning.
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@inProceedings{Dauner2026ARXIV,
author = {Daniel Dauner and Valentin Charraut and Bastian Berle and Tianyu Li and Long Nguyen and Jiabao Wang and Changhui Jing and Maximilian Igl and Holger Caesar and Boris Ivanovic and Andreas Geiger and Kashyap Chitta},
title = {123D: Unifying Multi-Modal Autonomous Driving Data at Scale},
booktitle = {arXiv Preprint},
year = {2026},
}
@inProceedings{Nguyen2026CVPR,
author = {Long Nguyen and Micha Fauth and Bernhard Jaeger and Daniel Dauner and Maximilian Igl and Andreas Geiger and Kashyap Chitta},
title = {LEAD: Minimizing Learner-Expert Asymmetry in End-to-End Driving},
booktitle = {Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
year = {2026},
}
@inProceedings{Tze2026CVPR,
author = {Christina Tze and Daniel Dauner and Yiyi Liao and Dzmitry Tsishkou and Andreas Geiger},
title = {PrITTI: Primitive-based Generation of Controllable and Editable 3D Semantic Urban Scenes},
booktitle = {Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
year = {2026},
}
@inProceedings{Cao2025CORL,
author = {Wei Cao and Marcel Hallgarten and Tianyu Li and Daniel Dauner and Xunjiang Gu and Caojun Wang and Yakov Miron and Marco Aiello and Hongyang Li and Igor Gilitschenski and Boris Ivanovic and Marco Pavone and Andreas Geiger and Kashyap Chitta},
title = {Pseudo-Simulation for Autonomous Driving},
booktitle = {Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL)},
year = {2025},
}
@inProceedings{Jaeger2025CORL,
author = {Bernhard Jaeger and Daniel Dauner and Jens Beißwenger and Simon Gerstenecker and Kashyap Chitta and Andreas Geiger},
title = {CaRL: Learning Scalable Planning Policies with Simple Rewards},
booktitle = {Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL)},
year = {2025},
}
@inProceedings{Dauner2024NIPS,
author = {Daniel Dauner and Marcel Hallgarten and Tianyu Li and Xinshuo Weng and Zhiyu Huang and Zetong Yang and Hongyang Li and Igor Gilitschenski and Boris Ivanovic and Marco Pavone and Andreas Geiger and Kashyap Chitta},
title = {NAVSIM: Data-Driven Non-Reactive Autonomous Vehicle Simulation and Benchmarking},
booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
year = {2024},
}
@inproceedings{Chitta2024ECCV,
author = {Kashyap Chitta and Daniel Dauner and Andreas Geiger},
title = {SLEDGE: Synthesizing Driving Environments with Generative Models and Rule-Based Traffic},
booktitle = {European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)},
year = {2024},
}
@inproceedings{Dauner2023CORL,
author = {Daniel Dauner and Marcel Hallgarten and Andreas Geiger and Kashyap Chitta},
title = {Parting with Misconceptions about Learning-based Vehicle Motion Planning},
booktitle = {Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL)},
year = {2023},
}
@inproceedings{Dauner2023ICLRW,
author = {Daniel Dauner},
title = {Image Reconstruction from Event Cameras for Autonomous Driving},
booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) Workshop on Scene Representations for Autonomous Driving},
year = {2023},
}
@mastersthesis{Dauner2023Master,
author = {Daniel Dauner},
title = {Vehicle Motion Planning using Data-Driven Simulation},
year = {2023},
school = {University of Tübingen},
}
@inproceedings{Mucsanyi2022Datalit,
author = {Bálint Mucsányi and Daniel Dauner},
title = {Analyzing Influential Factors of a Successful Movie},
booktitle = {Project Work at the University of Tübingen},
year = {2022},
}
@bachelorsthesis{Dauner2021Bachelor,
author = {Daniel Dauner},
title = {Acetabulum Fracture Classification on a large Cohort of CT Images from German Hospitals using 3D CNNs},
year = {2021},
school = {University of Tübingen},
}
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