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Radu Bogdan Rusu
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D-85748 Garching b. München
Present: I currently work as a researcher for the Intelligent Autonomous Systems group, part of the Computer Science department IX, Technische Universität München. My PhD supervisor is prof. Michael Beetz, PhD. I am also affiliated with the Artificial Intelligence Center, at Stanford Research Institute (SRI), International as an International Fellow Researcher, working on the Leaving Flatland project.
Past: Before moving to Munich (summer of 2005), I worked for the Robotics Research Group at the Faculty of Automation and Computer Science, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Transylvania, Romania. During my time at TUCN, I did research on autonomous mobile robots and intelligent agents, and taught subjects like "Low-level FreeBSD and Win32 assembly programming for peripheral devices" and "Data communication protocols" to undergraduate students. I wrote my diploma thesis (Dipl.Ing. - MSc in engineering equivalent) in 2004 called "Robotux, a multiagent robot security system" under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Eng. Liviu Miclea (head of the Automation and Industrial Informatics department) and Prof. Dr. Eng. Gheorghe Lazea (president of the university). After that, during my postgraduate advanced studies, the ZeeRO mobile robot was born, which I presented in 2005 in my dissertation thesis entitled "Modern architectures for mobile robots: Javaclient and ZeeRO", having Prof. Dr. Eng. Gheorghe Lazea as my supervisor.

Within the last few years, I was lucky enough to meet a number of interesting people, which helped me get a faster grip on several robotics related things. Together, we organized workshops and summer schools, and wrote software and papers that hopefully will help others too. Some of them were kind enough to invite me to their research institutes to give invited talks (SRI, PARC, MBARI, to name a few). And with some, I am still currently working with, on research projects which we hope will advance (even if slowly) the state of the art in some minor branches of this amazingly large, but very exciting research topic: robotics.

I therefore thank all my collaborators (they know who they are) for all their past, present and future initiatives.
Future: Planning to drink less coffee and get a real job®... at some point.
Any additional information about me, including a complete resume, is available upon request.

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