About Henrik I. Christensen
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Henrik I Christensen is the Qualcomm Chancellor's Chair of Robot Systems and the director of the Contextual Robotics Institute at UC San Diego and also a Professor of Computer Science in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Prior to this he served as the executive director of the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines at Georgia Tech.
Dr. Christensen was initially trained in Mechanical Engineering and worked subsequently
with MAN/BW Diesel. He earned M.Sc. and Ph.D. EE degrees from
Aalborg University, 1987 and 1990, respectively.
Upon graduation Dr. Christensen has participated in a large number
of international research projects across 4 continents. He held
positions at Aalborg University, Oak Ridge National Laboratory,
Royal Institute of Technology before
and Georgia Tech before joining
UC San Diego.
Dr. Christensen does research on robotics with a particular emphasis
on a systems perspective to the problem. Solutions must have a
strong theoretical basis, a corresponding well-defined
implementation and it must be evaluated in realistic settings. There
is a strong emphasis on “real systems for real applications!”
The research has involved collaborations with ABB, Electrolux,
Daimler-Chrysler, KUKA, iRobot, Apple, Partek Forest, Volvo, SAIC,
Boeing, GM, PSA Peugeot, BMW, Yujin, ...
Dr. Christensen has published more than 300 contributions across
robotics, vision and artificial intelligence.
Dr. Christensen served as the Founding Chairman of
EURON (1999-2006)
and research coordinator for ECVision (2000-2004). He has
lead and participated in a large number of EU projects such as VAP,
CoSy, CogVis, SMART, CAMERA, EcVision, EURON, Cogniron, and
Neurobotics. He served as the PI for the CCC initiative on US
Robotics. He is a PI on ARL
MAST CTA, the Robotics-Vo
and a number of projects with industry. He was awarded the Joseph
Engelberger Award 2011 and also named a Boeing Supplier of the Year
2011. He is a fellow of AAAS (2013) and IEEE (2015). He was awarded an honorary
doctorate in engineering (Dr. Techn. h.c.) from Aalborg University
2014.
Dr. Christensen has served / serves on the editorial board for many
of the most prestigious journals in the field incl. Intl. Jour. of
Robotics Research (IJRR), Autonomous Robots, Robotics and Autonomous
Systems (RAS), IEEE Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
(PAMI), and Image & Vision Computing. In addition, he serves on
the editorial board of the MIT Series
on Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents. He is the
co-editor-in-chief of Trends
and Foundations in Robotics