Ruzena Bajcsy
| Ruzena Bajcsy | |
|---|---|
| Born |
May 28, 1933 Bratislava, Czechoslovakia |
| Residence | United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley; University of Pennsylvania; |
| Alma mater | Stanford; Slovak Technical University |
| Doctoral advisor | John McCarthy |
| Known for | Artificial intelligence; Computer Vision; Robotics; Sensor Networks; Control; Biosystems; General Robotics and Active Sensory Perception Laboratory |
| Notable awards |
Benjamin Franklin Medal (2009) ACM Distinguished Service Award (2003) Computing Research Association Distinguished Service Award (2003) ACM/AAAI Allen Newell Award (2001) IEEE Robotics and Automation Award (2013) |
Ruzena Bajcsy (born 1933 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia) is an American computer scientist who specializes in robotics. She is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley, where she is also Director Emerita of CITRIS (the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society).
She was previously Professor and Chair of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, where she was the founding Director of the University of Pennsylvania's General Robotics and Active Sensory Perception (GRASP) Laboratory, and a member of the Neurosciences Institute in the School of Medicine. She has also been head of the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate, with authority over a $500 million budget. At Pennsylvania, she supervised at least 26 doctoral students who received the Ph.D.
Bajcsy was born in 1933 in Czechoslovakia to a Jewish family. Although her family was initially spared from Nazi concentration camps due to her father's work as a civil engineer, most of her adult relatives were killed by the Nazis in late 1944. Bajcsy and her sister, the only survivors in the immediate family, were supported as war orphans by the Red Cross; Bajcsy was later raised in orphanages and in foster care. A strong student in mathematics, she has said that she chose instead to study electrical engineering as a university student because the career prospects for mathematics students at the time led to teaching, which in Communist Eastern Europe required a commitment to Marxist-Leninist ideology that she was unwilling to provide.
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