Radu Bogdan Rusu

Radu B. Rusu is a Research Scientist at Willow Garage and a Visiting Lecturer at Stanford University. Dr. Rusu received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Technische Universität München (TUM), Germany in 2009 with summa cum laude. During his Ph.D., Dr. Rusu was affiliated with the CoTeSys (Cognition for Technical Systems) excellence cluster at TUM, the AIC (Artificial Intelligence Center) at SRI (Stanford Research Institute) as an International Fellow Researcher, and Willow Garage, working on 3D semantic mapping techniques for mobile robots. During his career, Dr. Rusu has been on the board of many workshops and scientific events in the field, held at prestigious conferences such as: RSS, ICRA, IROS, ECCV, ICCV, AAAI, etc. He has co-/authored over 60 peer-reviewed scientific publications, including 1 book, a best paper award (ICAR 2009), and a best student paper award finalist (RSS 2011). His doctoral dissertation has also been awarded second place in the EURON Georges Giralt 2011 PhD Award out of 31 other excellent submissions. Besides many events that he co-/organized, Dr. Rusu was also the general chair of the IEEE ARSO 2011 conference/workshop.

Current interests:

Dr. Rusu's research interests include: realtime point cloud perception, 3D semantic mapping, and object recognition, in addition to robotics in general and mobile and service robotics in particular.

Radu is the founder and now co-/maintainer and developer of the Point Cloud Library (PCL), a BSD-licensed large scale open source project that aims at providing a comprehensive collection of 3D point cloud/geometry processing algorithms. 

He is also serving in the IEEE Robotics and Automation's Technical Committee on Service Robotics.

You can find out more about Radu's work by visiting his personal web page (or his very old PhD research page).

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