I am a Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. I grew up in Bonn, Germany, and received my Ph.D. in 1998 from the Computer Science Department at the University of Bonn. I joined the UW faculty in the fall of 2000.

I am currently sharing my time between UW and Nvidia, where I’m leading the Robotics Research Lab in Seattle. Here’s some info on the opening of that lab, which is located at 4545 Roosevelt Way NE.

My research interests are in robotics, artificial intelligence, and state estimation. I am the head of the UW Robotics and State Estimation Lab RSE-Lab and recently served as the academic PI of the Intel Science and Technology Center for Pervasive Computing ISTC-PC. I’m a Fellow of the AAAI and IEEE, recipient of the IEEE RAS Pioneer Award, and served as an editor of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics.