Gregory Dudek is a Professor with the School of Computer Science and a member of the McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines (CIM) and an Associate member of the Dept. of Electrical Engineering at McGill University. He conducts research on sensor-based robotics, artificial intelligence and the related subjects. He teaches at the graduate and undergraduate level. In 9/2008 he became the Director of the McGill School of Computer Science. Since 2012 he has been the Scientific Director of the NSERC Canadian Field Robotics Network (NCFRN): http://ncfrn.mcgill.ca He is the former Director of McGill's Research Center for Intelligent Machines, a 25 year old inter-faculty research facility. In 2002 he was named a William Dawson Scholar. In 2008 he was made James McGill Chair. In 2023 he was appointed Distinguished James McGill Chair. In 2010 he was awarded the Fessenden Professorship in Science Innovation. In 2010 he was also awarded the Canadian Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Award(s) for Research Excellence and also for Service to the Research Community. In 2017 he was awarded an IEEE Gold Medal. In 2024 he was awarded the lifetime achivement award from CS-CAN, the society dedicated to representing computer science in Canada. He directs the McGill Mobile Robotics Laboratory.
In 2024 he was elected to the Administrative Committee (AdCom) of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. He has been on the organizing and/or program committees of Robotics: Systems and Science, the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Systems (IROS), the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Computer and Robot Vision, IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and International Conference on Hands-on Intelligent Mechatronics and Automation among other bodies. He was president of CIPPRS, the Canadian Information Processing and Pattern Recognition Society, an ICPR national affiliate.
Gregory obtained his BSc in computer science and physics at Queen's University, and following that an MSc (computer science - systems) and PhD (computer science - computational vision) at the University of Toronto. He then moved to Montreal to start a Postdoc in computer science at McGill where he now is Professor and Distinguished James McGill Chair. During his first sabbatical (2000-01) he was the Visiting Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University and at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). A subsequent sabbatical ws spent visiting the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He took another sabbatical at Stanford in 2016-2017. He served as Lab Head and VP Research at the Montreal Samsung AI Centre from 2019-2024.
He has authored and co-authored over 350 research publications on subjects including visual object description, recognition, RF localization, robotic navigation and mapping, distributed system design, 5G telecommunications, and biological perception. This includes a book entitled "Computational Principles of Mobile Robotics" co-authored with Michael Jenkin and published by Cambridge University Press. He has chaired and been otherwise involved in numerous national and international conferences and professional activities concerned with Robotics, Machine Sensing and Computer Vision. He research interests include perception for mobile robotics, navigation and position estimation, environment and shape modelling, computational vision and collaborative filtering.
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