Frank Dellaert Editor & Author

Frank Dellaert is Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he focuses on perception and planning for autonomous robot systems. He pioneered the use of several probabilistic methods in both computer vision and robotics, such as the Monte Carlo localization and factor graph optimization. From 2014 to 2018, Prof. Dellaert spent time at KU Leuven, Skydio, and Meta's Reality labs. He also worked at Google AI and was CTO at Verdant Robotics from 2022 to 2024. Seth Hutchinson is Professor at Northeastern University and Professor emeritus at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. He was previously the Executive Director of the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines at Georgia Tech, where he was also Professor and KUKA Chair for Robotics in the School of Interactive Computing (2018–2024). Hutchinson has coauthored three books on robotics and served as president of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, amongst other distinctions.