Jürgen Sturm

Jürgen Sturm is a German software engineer, entrepreneur and academic. He is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google, where he works on bringing 3D reconstruction and semantic scene understanding to mixed reality devices.

Sturm is most known for his work on robotics, computer vision, machine learning and artificial intelligence. He has authored and co-authored research articles and a book entitled ''Approaches to Probabilistic Model Learning for Mobile Manipulation Robots''. He is the recipient of the 2011 European Coordinating Committee of Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI) Best Dissertation Award, the 2011 Wolfgang-Gentner Award for an Outstanding PhD Thesis, the TeachInf Best Lecture Award from the Technical University of Munich in 2012 and 2013 for his course Visual Navigation for Flying Robots, and is listed among the most influential robotics scholars in 2022 by Technical University of Munich by AMiner. Provided by Wikipedia