Radu Bogdan Rusu
Radu Bogdan Rusu is a Research Scientist at Willow Garage. Dr. Rusu received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Technische Universität München (TUM), Germany in 2009 with summa cum laude. He teaches a course on Perception for Manipulation at Stanford University. 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 working on the Leaving Flatland project, and more recently, Willow Garage, working on 3D semantic mapping techniques for mobile robots. During the last few years, 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, and AAAI. He has authored over 50 scientific publications, including 1 book and a best paper award at the 2009 ICAR conference.
Dr. Rusu's current research interests include realtime perception and 3D semantic mapping and object recognition in the context of mobile manipulation platforms. You can find out more about Radu's work by visiting his personal web page.
