Biographical

Born September 4th, 1981 in Alba-Iulia, Transylvania, Romania. Received first computer at the age of 13. Started learning programming languages one year later. Joined the ‘Horia, Closca & Crisan’ National College (high school) from Alba-Iulia in 1995, department of mathematics & physics. Graduated in 1999 (best baccalaureate GPA in class). Joined the Faculty of Automation & Computer Science, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca in 1999, department of Automation & Industrial Informatics. Graduated in 2004 with a MSc in engineering equivalent diploma (summa cum laude equivalent). Re-joined the same department for post-graduate advanced studies. Graduated in 2005 (summa cum laude equivalent). Moved to Munich, Germany, in the summer of 2005 and started to work as a researcher at TUM (Technische Universitaet Muenchen), as a part of the Intelligent Autonomous Systems research group, Computer Science department IX. Graduated in 2009 (summa cum laude). International Fellow Researcher at the Artificial Intelligence Center (AIC), Stanford Research Institute (SRI) International, October 2007 - December 2008. Research Scientist at Willow Garage since then. Visiting Lecturer at Stanford University since 2009.

Affiliations

Point Cloud Library “organization” (Founder/Maintainer/Developer)
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Stanford University (Visiting Lecturer)
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Willow Garage (Research Scientist)
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IEEE RAS TC on Service Robotics (Committee Chair)
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AIC@SRI International (Visiting Research Scientist/Alumnus)
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IAS@Computer Science Department@TUM (PhD Student/Research Scientist/Alumnus)
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RRG@TUCN (Research Scientist/Alumnus)

(me, me, me)

Research

Co/Organizer of > 20 major scientific events, including workshops, doctoral schools, etc
Reviewer for > 30 different journals, conferences, and workshops
Published > 60 peer reviewed papers
Best Student Paper Award Finalist at RSS 2011
Finalist (2nd prize) out of 31 excellent submissions for EURON’s George Giralt PhD Award
Best Paper Award at ICAR 2009
O1/EB1 visa recipient
BSc, MSc, PhD: summa cum laude

Software

PCL // ROS // The Player Project // YARP // Javaclient for Player // Linux Assembly // …

Robots

PR2 // RHex // TumBot // RedBack // AGILO // ZeeRO // …

Misc

Curriculum Vitae available on request, though in all fairness my public Linkedin profile divulges quite a bit. SourceForge supporter 493640. IEEE RAS member 80400206.

Sucker for Tiësto, and Seinfeld.

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