Dieter Fox

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Dieter Fox
Dieter Fox University of Washington associate professor of computer science and engineering.jpg
Born1966
Nationality Flag of Germany.svg German Flag of US.svg United States
Alma mater University of Bonn
Scientific career
Fields Robotics
Institutions University of Washington, Seattle
Doctoral advisor Armin B. Cremers

Dieter Fox is a German-American roboticist and a Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is also the Senior Director of Robotics Research at Nvidia. [1] He received his PhD in Computer Science at the University of Bonn in 1998 on mobile robot localization and navigation. [2] He is most notable for his contributions to several fields including robotics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and ubiquitous computing. Together with Wolfram Burgard and Sebastian Thrun he is a co-author of the book Probabilistic Robotics . [3] He was elected an AAAI Fellow in 2011. [4]

References

  1. "Dieter Fox | Research". research.nvidia.com. Retrieved 2024-04-12.
  2. "Markov Localization: A Probabilistic Framework for Mobile Robot Localization and Navigation". www.cs.cmu.edu. Retrieved 2024-04-12.
  3. Thrun, S.; Burgard, W.; Fox, D. (2005). Probabilistic Robotics. MIT Press. ISBN   0-262-20162-3.
  4. "Elected AAAI Fellows". AAAI. Retrieved 2024-01-06.