Dieter Fox | |
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| Born | 1966 |
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| 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]