Danica Kragic

Member

Region 8 (Europe, Middle East and Africa)
Sweden

Address

Stockholm, Sweden

Biography

Danica Kragic is a Professor of Computer Science at the School of
Computer Science and Communication at KTH and Acting Director of the
interdisciplinary research centre Centre for Autonomous Systems.  In
2007, she received the 2007 IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Early
Academic Career Award. In 2008, she received the Swedish Foundation
for Strategic Research Future Research Leaders Award.  From 2006, she
is the chair for the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Technical
Activity Board for Computer and Robot Vision and a member of the IEEE
RAS Conference Editorial Board.  She was the PI for several projects
financed by the Swedish Research Council: Human Machine
Collaborative Systems, Robot Learning by Demonstration and
Modeling Complex Robot Manipulation Tasks by Human Interaction
and Learning.  She is the coordinator for the FP7-EU Integrated
Project GRASP, and one of the PIs for the FP7-EU Integrated
Project CogX and FP6-EU Integrated Project
PACO-PLUS.  At KTH, she is responsible for the Autonomous Systems undergraduate
specialization and a member of the Undergraduate Committee. Her research interest involve development of vision systems and vision based control; human-robot interaction and collaboration, object grasping and manipulation.

 

 

Contact information

Languages:
Bosnian (Bosanski)
Croatian (Hrvatski)
English
Montenegrin ()
Serbian ()
Slovene (Slovenski jezik)
Swedish ()

danik@nada.kth.se
+46 8 790 6729

+46 8 7230302
http://www.csc.kth.se/~danik