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, and his postgraduate diploma and engineering diploma (M.Sc. Eng. equivallent) in Automation and Computer Science in 2005 and 2004 respectively from Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (TUCN), Romania. During his Ph.D. studies, Dr. Rusu was affiliated with the AIC (Artificial Intelligence Center) at SRI (Stanford Research Institute) as an International Visiting Researcher working on the Leaving Flatland project, and more recently, Willow Garage, working on 3D semantic mapping techniques for mobile robots.
Dr. Rusu's current research interests include realtime perception and 3D semantic mapping in the context of mobile manipulation platforms. You can find out more about his work by visiting his personal web page.
