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Sebastian Thrun Professor, Stanford University & Director, Stanford AI Lab Professor Sebastian Thrun is the Director of the Stanford AI Lab, home to more than 120 researchers at Stanford University, California. He recently changed to Stanford from Carnegie Mellon University, where he was an associate professor and held an endowed chair. Thrun has pioneered the area of probabilistic robotics, but also pursues research on machine learning, AI, and multi-agent systems. Thrun has won several best paper awards (AAAI-98, DAGM-98, ICRA-00, AAMAS-03, FSR-03, ICRA-03), and is a frequent keynote speaker at international conferences in AI and robotics (KI-05, ICAR-05, IROS-04, ICML-02, UAI-02, ECAI-02, NIPS-01, BNAIC-01, IJCAI-01, FSR-01). Thrun has published over 275 papers, including seven books and edited volumes, and he serves on the editorial board of a number of journals in robotics and AI. He was general chairperson of the 2003 NIPS conference and the 1998 CONALD conference, and is the founding chair of the 2005 Robotics Science and Systems conference. | 