Keynotes

Russ Tedrake

Bio: Dr. Russ Tedrake is co-founder and CEO of Walden Robotics. Russ is also the Toyota Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Mechanical Engineering at MIT.

Russ was formerly the Senior Vice President of Large Behavior Models at the Toyota Research Institute. He was the leader of Team MIT's entry in the DARPA Robotics Challenge. He is well known for his leadership of the open-source robotics toolkit Drake and for his online courses/textbooks: Underactuated Robotics and Robotic Manipulation.

Fei-Fei Li

Bio: Dr. Fei-Fei Li is the inaugural Sequoia Professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University, and a Founding Co-Director of Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute. She served as the Director of Stanford’s AI Lab from 2013 to 2018.

In industry, Dr. Li has served as a Vice President at Google and Chief Scientist of AI/ML at Google Cloud (2017-2018), board member or advisor in various public or private companies (notably Twitter). She is currently a Co-founder/CEO of World Labs, an AI company focusing on Spatial Intelligence and generative AI.

Wolfram Burgard 

Bio: Wolfram Burgard is a professor of Computer Science at the University of Technology Nuremberg, where he heads the research group on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. Prior, he was a professor of autonomous intelligent systems at the University of Freiburg, Germany. From 2019 until 2021, he was VP for Automated Driving and Machine Learning at the Toyota Research Institute in Los Altos, USA. In his career, he published over 400 papers. He received multiple awards, including the IEEE Technical Field Award, the IEEE RAS Pioneer Award, and the Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation. He is a fellow of the IEEE, the AAAI, and the EurAI, and a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.