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Sebastian Thrun is a Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, where he also serves as the Director of the Stanford AI Lab. His research focuses on robotics and artificial intelligence.

Thrun has delivered numerous invited plenary presentations at leading conferences and symposia (a list is available here). He served as the inaugural general conference chair of Robotics Science and Systems (RSS) 2005. He was general conference chair of Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 2003 and Conference on Automated Learning and Discovery (CONALD) 1998, co-chair of the International Symposium of Robotics Research (ISRR) 2005, and program chair of NIPS 2002. He is a founding member of RSS and Vice President of the NIPS Foundation.

Some recent awards and honors:
  • Braunschweig Research Prize, 2007.
  • Member, Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina (German Academy of Sciences).
  • Member, National Academy of Engineering, 2007.
  • Scientific American 50 (list of 50 technology and policy leaders), 2006.
  • World Technology Award, Category: IT Software, 2006.
  • Elected ECCAI Fellow, 2006.
  • Elected AAAI Fellow, 2006.
  • Forbes Magazine "E-Gang" (list of 7 technology leaders), 2006.
  • Vance D. and Arlene C. Coffman Endowed Faculty Scholar, 2006.
  • Team Leader of the team that won the DARPA Grand Challenge.
  • "Brilliant Ten" by Popular Science, 2005.
  • Best paper award, International Conference of Field and Service Robotics (FSR), 2003.
  • Best paper award, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2003.
  • Best paper award, Second International Joint Confernce on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), 2003.
  • Finmeccanica Endowed Chair, School of Computer Science, CMU, 2002.
  • Olympus Award of the German Society for Pattern Recognition (DAGM), 2001.
  • DARPA Distinguished Contractor Award, 2001.
  • Best paper award, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2000.
  • Best paper award, German Conference of the Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft fuer Mustererkennung (German Society for Pattern Recognition), 1999.
  • NSF CAREER Award, March 1999--February 2003.
  • Best paper award, National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 1998.


A detailed Curriculum Vitae is also available.

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