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 Distinguished Professor of Computer Science in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
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 has held positions
at Aalborg
University, Oak Ridge
National Laboratory,
Royal Institute of Technology
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, Qualcomm, ...
Dr. Christensen has published more than 350 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
DCIST RCA, 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 was the founding
co-editor-in-chief of
Trends
and Foundations in Robotics