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I grew up in Bonn, Germany, and received my Ph.D. in 1998 from the Computer Science Department at the University of Bonn. I joined the UW faculty in the fall of 2000.</p> <p>I am sharing my time between UW and Nvidia, where I’m leading the <a href="https://nvidia_srl.gitlab.io/">Robotics Research Lab</a> in Seattle. </p> <p>My research interests are in robotics, artificial intelligence, and state estimation. I am the head of the UW Robotics and State Estimation Lab <a href="http://rse-lab.cs.washington.edu" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">RSE-Lab</a>. I’m a Fellow of the <a href="http://www.aaai.org/home.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">AAAI</a>, <a href="https://www.acm.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">ACM</a>, and <a href="http://www.ieee-ras.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">IEEE</a>, recipient of the <a href="https://www.ieee-ras.org/awards-recognition/society-awards/69-awards-recognition/society-awards/55-ras-pioneer-award">IEEE RAS Pioneer Award</a> and the <a href="https://www.ijcai.org/awards">IJCAI John McCarthy Award</a>, and served as an editor of the <a href="http://www.ieee-ras.org/publications/t-ro" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">IEEE Transactions on Robotics</a>.</p> <hr> <p><a href="//rse-lab.cs.washington.edu" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img decoding="async" class="alignleft wp-image-42 size-medium" title="RSE-Lab" src="http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~fox/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/research-300x225.jpg" alt="RSE-Lab" width="150" height="113" srcset="https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~fox/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/research-300x225.jpg 300w, https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~fox/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/research.jpg 1024w, https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~fox/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/research-326x245.jpg 326w, https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~fox/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/research-700x525.jpg 700w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /></a></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Research: </strong></span>The goal of my research is to enable systems to interact with people and their environment in an intelligent way. A lot of my work focuses on perception and its connection to control, where we develop techniques to extract relevant information from raw sensor data. Application areas of my work include human activity recognition, 3D mapping and tracking, and robot manipulation and control.</p> <hr> <p><a href="http://rse-lab.cs.washington.edu/?page_id=9" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img decoding="async" class="alignleft wp-image-41 size-medium" title="Students and postdocs" src="http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~fox/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/people-300x225.jpg" alt="people" width="150" height="113" srcset="https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~fox/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/people-300x225.jpg 300w, https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~fox/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/people.jpg 1024w, https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~fox/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/people-326x245.jpg 326w, https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~fox/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/people-700x525.jpg 700w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /></a><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Students / post-docs:</strong></span> I am fortunate to work with a great group of graduate students, undergraduate students, and post-docs in my lab. We discuss research in weekly individual and group meetings.<br> <br> <br></p> <hr> <p><a href="http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~fox/?page_id=26"><img decoding="async" class="alignleft wp-image-39 size-medium" title="Publications" src="http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~fox/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/pubs-300x225.jpg" alt="pubs" width="150" height="113" srcset="https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~fox/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/pubs-300x225.jpg 300w, https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~fox/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/pubs.jpg 1024w, https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~fox/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/pubs-326x245.jpg 326w, https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~fox/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/pubs-700x525.jpg 700w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /></a></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Publications:</strong></span> The research results of my group are published in the main robotics as well as AI, machine learning, and computer vision conferences and journals.<br> <br> <br> <br></p> <hr> <p><a href="http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~fox/?page_id=98"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignleft wp-image-40 size-medium" title="Teaching" src="http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~fox/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/teaching-300x225.jpg" alt="teaching" width="150" height="113" srcset="https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~fox/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/teaching-300x225.jpg 300w, https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~fox/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/teaching.jpg 1024w, https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~fox/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/teaching-326x245.jpg 326w, https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~fox/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/teaching-700x525.jpg 700w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /></a><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Teaching:</span></strong> I mostly teach courses in robotics and AI, both at the undergraduate and graduate level. Undergraduate capstone courses cover robotics and interactive systems enabled by RGB-D cameras.<br> <br> <br></p> <hr> <div style="float: left; width: 170px;"><a href="http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~fox/files/wp/fox-cv.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignleft wp-image-205 size-medium" src="http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~fox/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/fox-service-reco-150x113.jpg" alt="fox-service-reco" width="150" height="113"></a></div> <div style="float: left; width: 400px;"> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Activities and Recognition</strong></span></p> <ul style="margin-left: 15px;"> <li>Pioneer in Robotics and Automation Award, IEEE 2020</li> <li>Fellow of ACM, IEEE, AAAI</li> <li>Editor of IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO), 2010-2015</li> <li>Program Chair: Robotics Science and Systems (RSS), 2013</li> <li>Program Chair: AAAI Conference, 2008</li> <li>RSS Foundation Board member</li> <li>JAIR Advisory Board member</li> <li>Best Paper: CVPR-15, ISWC-05, AAAI-04, ICRA-00, DAGM-99, AAAI-98, IROS-98</li> <li>AAAI Classic Paper Award, 2016, 2017</li> <li>Ubicomp 10-Year Impact Award, 2013</li> <li>AIJ Prominent Paper Award, 2012</li> <li>Best Cognitive Robotics Paper ICRA 2014; Best Vision Paper ICRA 2011, 2017; Best Student Paper IROS 2007</li> <li>ECCAI Artificial Intelligence Dissertation Award, 2000</li> </ul> </div> </div> </article> </div> </div> <div id="secondary" class="widget-area" role="complementary"> <aside id="black-studio-tinymce-3" class="widget widget_black_studio_tinymce"><div class="textwidget"><p> </p> <p><a href="http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~fox/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Fox.jpg"><img class="alignnone wp-image-34" src="http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~fox/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Fox-326x408.jpg" alt="fox" width="120" height="150" /></a></p> <h6>Dieter Fox<br /> <a href="http://www.cs.washington.edu" target="_blank">Computer Science & Engineering</a><br /> <a href="http://www.washington.edu" target="_blank">University of Washington</a></h6> <p> </p> <p><a href="http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~fox/files/wp/fox-cv.pdf"><img class="alignleft wp-image-85 size-full" title="CV" src="http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~fox/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/cv-small1.png" alt="Fox CV" width="80" height="107" /></a><a href="http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~fox/?page_id=61"><img class="alignright wp-image-89 size-full" title="Contact / Directions" src="http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~fox/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/map-small1.png" alt="map-small" width="87" height="107" /></a></p> </div></aside> <aside id="recent-posts-3" class="widget widget_recent_entries"> <h1 class="widget-title"><span>Recent Posts</span></h1> <ul> <li> <a href="https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~fox/new-position-at-nvidia-research/">New position at Nvidia Research</a> <span class="post-date">October 31, 2017</span> </li> <li> <a href="https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~fox/checkout-my-iros-2017-plenary/">Checkout <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLMdjyI1iH4ysIWKv82RfdD7nF5a_BQ0l6&v=9ZuCo5tHZ6I">my IROS 2017 Plenary</a></a> <span class="post-date">October 21, 2017</span> </li> <li> <a href="https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~fox/icra-16-keynote-online/">ICRA-16 Keynote online</a> <span class="post-date">June 10, 2016</span> </li> <li> <a href="https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~fox/welcome-new-uw-robotics-faculty/">Welcome new UW robotics faculty</a> <span class="post-date">October 2, 2015</span> </li> <li> <a href="https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~fox/richards-dynamicfusion-paper-wins-best-paper-award-at-cvpr/">DynamicFusion Paper wins Best Paper Award at CVPR!</a> <span class="post-date">June 11, 2015</span> </li> </ul> </aside> </div> </div>  </div> <div id="push"></div> </div> <footer id="colophon" class="site-footer" role="contentinfo"> <div class="section clearfix"> <a href="http://wordpress.org" title="A Semantic Personal Publishing Platform" rel="generator">WordPress</a> <a href="http://wptheming.com">Theme: Visual</a> </div> </footer> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~fox/wp-includes/js/imagesloaded.min.js?ver=5.0.0" id="imagesloaded-js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~fox/wp-includes/js/masonry.min.js?ver=4.2.2" id="masonry-js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~fox/wp-content/themes/visual/js/theme.js?ver=1.3.2" id="visual-scripts-js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://stats.wp.com/e-202448.js" id="jetpack-stats-js" data-wp-strategy="defer"></script> <script type="text/javascript" id="jetpack-stats-js-after"> /* <![CDATA[ */ _stq = window._stq || []; _stq.push([ "view", JSON.parse("{\"v\":\"ext\",\"blog\":\"87549356\",\"post\":\"28\",\"tz\":\"-8\",\"srv\":\"homes.cs.washington.edu\",\"j\":\"1:14.0\"}") ]); _stq.push([ "clickTrackerInit", "87549356", "28" ]); /* ]]> */ </script> </body> </html>