Overview

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Ingmar Posner is co-founder at Oxbotica and leads the perception and planning work within the Mobile Robotics Group. He is also an associate professor in Information Engineering at University of Oxford.
He has advanced research with contributions to premier international conferences and journals. His track record includes award winning work on semantic mapping, active perception and 3D reconstruction. Following an invitation as a visiting researcher to MIT, the work he led there on active perception was awarded a Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS). Two of his recent publications have been invited to the Best Paper track at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). Posner has served twice as area chair of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), the premier international robotics conference, as Associate Editor for the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems(IROS). He convened and organised the 2013 Oxford International Summit on Robotics.
Prof. Ingmar obtained an M.Eng in Electronic Systems Engineering from Aston University in 2001 and then he took a D.Phil. in Engineering at the University of Oxford.