Tomás Lozano-Pérez is a Cuban-American computer science professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and member of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. On the MIT faculty since 1981, he conducts research in robotics, motion planning and geometric algorithms, and their applications.[2]
Tomás Lozano-Pérez | |
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Born | |
Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Robotics, Motion Planning |
Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Thesis | Spatial Planning with Polyhedral Models (1980) |
Doctoral advisor | Berthold K.P. Horn |
Notable students | Matthew T. Mason Bruce Donald |
Awards and honors
edit- 2011 IEEE Robotics Pioneer Award
- 1985 Presidential Young Investigator Award
- A Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers[2]
References
edit- ^ "Oral-History:Tomas Lozano-Perez". Engineering and Technology History Wiki. 14 December 2020. Retrieved 12 October 2023.
- ^ a b "Tomás Lozano-Pérez". Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. MIT. Retrieved 24 November 2020.