Henrik I Christensen is the KUKA Chair of Robotics and a Professor of Computing with the Georgia Institute of Technology. He also serves as the director of the Center for Robotics and Intelligent Machines. Dr. Christensen was initially trained in Mechanical Engineering and worked subsequently with MAN/B&W Diesel. He earned M.Sc. and Ph.D. EE degrees from Aalborg University, 1987 and 1990, respectively.

Upon graduation Dr. Christensen has participated in a large number of international research projects across 4 continents. He has held positions at Aalborg University, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Royal Institute of Technology before joining Georgia Tech.

Dr. Christensen does research on robotics with a particular emphasis on a systems perspective to the problem. Solutions must have a strong theoretical basis, a corresponding well-defined implementation and it must be evaluated in realistic settings. There is a strong emphasis on “real systems for real applications!”

The research has involved collaborations with ABB, Electrolux, Daimler-Chrysler, KUKA, iRobot, WEDA, Apple, Partek Forest, Volvo, SkogForsk, SAIC, Boeing, GM, Yujin...

Dr. Christensen has published more than 250 contributions across robotics, vision and artificial intelligence.

Dr. Christensen served as the Founding Chairman of EURON (1999-2006) and as the research coordinator of ECVision (2000-2004). He has lead and participated in a large number of EU projects such as VAP, CoSy, CogVis, SMART, CAMERA, EcVision, EURON, Cogniron, and Neurobotics. He is currently serving as a PI for the CCC initiative on US Robotics, ARL MAST CTA, KORUS Cog Consumer Robots,....

Dr. Christensen has served / serves on many of the most prestigious journals in the field incl. Intl. Jour. of Robotics Research, Autonomous Robots, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, IEEE Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), and Image & Vision Computing. In addition he serves on the editorial board of the Springer STAR Series and the MIT Series on Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents.