Wolfram Burgard

Wolfram Burgard is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Freiburg (Germany) and Vice President for Automated Driving Technology at the Toyota Research Institute in Los Altos, USA. He leads the Autonomous Intelligent Systems research lab and has authored over 350 publications in robotics and artificial intelligence, including two seminal books: "Principles of Robot Motion – Theory, Algorithms, and Implementations" and "Probabilistic Robotics".

• Research focuses on robust and adaptive probabilistic techniques for robot navigation, control, localization, SLAM, and path-planning.
• Key affiliations: University of Freiburg, Toyota Research Institute, and Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS).

Scientific Recognition

• Fellowships: EurAI, AAAI, IEEE
• Academic memberships: German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities

His work has significantly advanced autonomous systems and probabilistic robotics, shaping modern approaches to mobile robot state estimation and exploration.