Lydia Kavraki

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Lydia E. Kavraki (* 1967 in Heraklion ) is a Greek - American computer scientist .

Kavraki studied at the University of Crete and did his PhD in 1995 with Jean-Claude Latombe at Stanford University ( Random Networks in Configuration Space for Fast Path Planning ). She is the Noah Harding Professor of Computer Science, Bioengineering, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering at Rice University and Director of the Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology there.

Kavraki did research on robotics, artificial intelligence , biomedicine and bioinformatics. From her comes the method of probabilistic path plans for robots or generally high-dimensional systems with restrictions for movement and kinematics. The open source software Open Motion Planning Library (OMPL) comes from her laboratory .

She developed computational methods and tools for modeling protein structure and function, molecular biological interactions and drug development, for example for asthma and personalized immunotherapy.

In 2002 she was on the list of 35 inventors under the age of 35. She was a Sloan Research Fellow. In 2000 she received the Grace Murray Hopper Award for her groundbreaking work on the probabilistic roadmap approach, which caused a paradigm shift in the field of path planning and has many applications in robotics, manufacturing, nanotechnology and bioinformatics (laudation). In 2010 she became a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery for contributions to robot motion planning and computational biology, and she held their ACM Athena Lectures. She is a Fellow of the IEEE , the American Association for the Advancement of Science , the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), the Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas (TAMEST), and the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence ( AAAI), member of the Academy of Athens and member of the National Academy of Medicine of the USA. In 2019 she received the ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award with Daphne Koller .

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  • with JC Latombe: Randomized preprocessing of configuration for fast path planning, Proceedings of the 1994 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 1994, pp. 2138-2145
  • with P. Svestka, JC Latombe, MH Overmars : Probabilistic roadmaps for path planning in high-dimensional configuration spaces, IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, Volume 12, 1996, pp. 566-580
  • with MN Kolontzakis, JC Latombe: Analysis of probabilistic roadmaps for path planning, IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, Volume 14, 1998, pp. 166-171
  • with R. Bohlin: Path planning using lazy PRM, Proceedings 2000 ICRA. Millennium Conference, 2000
  • with A. Haeberlen, E. Flannery, AM Ladd, A. Rudys, DS Wallach: Practical robust localization over large-scale 802.11 wireless networks, Proceedings of the 10th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking, 2004, pp. 70-84
  • with AM Ladd, KE Bekirs, A. Rudys, DS Wallach: Robotics-based location sensing using wireless ethernet, Wireless Networks, Volume 11, 2005, pp. 189-204
  • with IA Sucan, M. Moll: The open motion planning library, IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, Volume 19, 2012, pp. 72–82
  • with Howie Choset, Kevin M. Lynch, Seth Hutchinson, George Kantor, Wolfram Burgard , Sebastian Thrun: Principles of Robot Motion, MIT Press 2015
  • with Steven M. LaValle: Motion planning, in: Bruno Siciliano, Oussama Khatib (ed.), Springer Handbook of Robotics, Springer 2016, pp. 109-131

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oral History Interview, Lydia Kavraki , Interview with Selma Šabanović, College Station, Texas 2015
  2. ↑ Lydia Kavraki in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
personal data
SURNAME Kavraki, Lydia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kavraki, Lydia E.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek-American computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Heraklion