Daniela Rus
Daniela L. Rus (* 1963 in Cluj-Napoca , Romania ) is an American computer scientist .
Rus came to the United States from Romania with her parents in 1982. She received her PhD from Cornell University in 1992 with John E. Hopcroft ( Fine motion planning for dexterous manipulation ). She was a professor at Dartmouth College and is a professor of computer science and electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she has been director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) since 2012 , succeeding Anant Agarwal . She is the first woman as director of this important and traditional MIT laboratory, which is also its largest cross-departmental research institute. Before that, she was its associate director from 2008 and co-director of its Center of Robotics from 2005 . She heads the Distributed Robotics laboratory within CSAIL .
She is an expert in distributed robotics and has carried out some sensational robot projects with her employees, for example robots that fly in swarms, dance with people and tend gardens, and sensor networks that keep cows on pasture without a fence. She worked on self-reconfiguring robots and self-organizing robot networks, mobile sensor networks and robotics for underwater work.
In 2002 she became a MacArthur Fellow and she was a Sloan Research Fellow . She is on the advisory board of the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen and co-editor of the Journal of Autonomous Robots. She is a Fellow of the IEEE (2009) and on the Planning Council of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. In 2017, Rus was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rus, Daniela |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rus, Daniela L. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American computer scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cluj-Napoca |