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. 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. Re-joined the same department for post-graduate advanced studies. Graduated in 2005. 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. 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.

Affiliations

Willow Garage - Brian Gerkey, Kurt Konolige, Gary Bradski // AIC@SRI International - Brian Gerkey, Kurt Konolige, Benoit Morisset // IAS@Computer Science Department@TUM - Michael Beetz // RRG@TUCN - Gheorghe Lazea

(me, me)

Robots

PR // RHex // TumBot // RedBack // AGILO // ZeeRO

Software

ROS // The Player Project // Yet Another Robot Platform // Javaclient for Player // Linux Assembly

Misc

Curriculum Vitae available on request. SourceForge supporter 493640. IEEE RAS member 80400206.

Sucker for Tiësto, and Seinfeld.

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