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 four 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!â€
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 400 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 Co-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.
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