Kostas Daniilidis is a Professor of Computer Science and holds the Ruth Yalom Stone Chair at the University of Pennsylvania, where he has been a professor since 1998. He is an IEEE Fellow. He was the director of the GRASP Laboratory from 2008 to 2013 and the Associate Dean for Graduate Education from 2012 to 2016. He obtained his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens in 1986, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Karlsruhe in 1992, under the supervision of Hans-Hellmut Nagel. He organized and chaired the IEEE 3DPVT conference in 2006 and the ECCV conference in 2010. He received the Best Paper Award at IEEE ICRA in 2017. His most well-known scientific works are at the intersection of learning and geometry, in visual navigation, neuromorphic vision, 3D estimation of the location of humans/objects/animals, and the calibration of robotic arms using sensors.
