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 many 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
led and participated in a many 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, TILOS, the
Robotics-VO, and several 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.
< br /> 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