Faculty

Dieter Fox is a Professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. He grew up in Bonn, Germany, and received his Ph.D. in 1998 from the Computer Science Department at the University of Bonn. He joined the UW faculty in the fall of 2000.

Fox shares his time between UW, where he is the head of the UW Robotics and State Estimation Lab (RSE-Lab). and Nvidia, where he leads the Robotics Research Lab in Seattle. His research interests are in robotics, artificial intelligence, and state estimation. The goal of his research is to enable systems to interact with people and their environment in an intelligent way. A lot of his work focuses on perception and its connection to control, where he develops techniques to extract relevant information from raw sensor data, with applications in human activity recognition, 3D mapping and tracking, and robot manipulation and control.

Fox is a Fellow of the AAAI, ACM, and IEEE, recipient of the IEEE RAS Pioneer Award and the IJCAI John McCarthy Award, and served as an editor of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics.