German Ros, Ph.D

I serve as Director of the Autonomous Agents Lab at Intel, in Santa Clara, California. My obsession is to create autonomous systems that can operate in the physical world at scale, showing intelligence, dexterity, and safe behaviors. In order to fulfill this goal, I focus on problems at the intersection of machine learning, computer vision, computer graphics, simulation for AI, 3D geometry, and autonomous systems. I am a strong open-source advocate, and as part of my research I have led top-tier open-source projects such as the CARLA Autonomous Driving simulator, and the Open3D library.

Before joining Intel Labs, I served as a Research Scientist at the Toyota Research Institute (TRI), where he conducted research in the area of Simulation for Autonomous Driving, Scene Understanding, and Domain Adaptation, in the context of Autonomous Driving. I obtained his PhD in Computer Science at Autonomous University of Barcelona (2016), and the Computer Vision Center (CVC).

News

• [2022.12.21] Looking for Research Scientist, US in one of the following areas: Simulation for AI, virtual worlds generation, digital twins, AI applied to computer graphics. This is a US position, but there is an option to open an equivalent position in Munich, Germany. Contact me if you are interested.
• [2022.12.01] Our Machine Learning for Autonomous Driving Workshop (NeurIPS’22) was a great success! It was an honor to host such amazing speakers and presenters.
• [2022.12.04] The results of the CARLA Autonomous Driving Challenge 2022 are out! Congratulations to the winning teams!

Talks

• [2022.04.11] Talk at University of Wisconsin-Madison: “Simulation for Autonomous Driving”.
• [2022.03.22] Talk at AWS Imagine: “The future of tech and impact computing showcase”.
• [2021.11.10] Talk at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: “Accomplishments and challenges in Autonomous Systems Simulation”.
• [2021.09.22] Talk at the 9th Machine-Ground Interaction Consortium: “The CARLA Autonomous Driving Leaderboard”.
• [2021.07.02] Talk at the ETH Robotics Symposium 2021: “On the importance of building open environments and solutions for Autonomous Driving”.
• [2019.09.03] Talk at the ORNL Smoky Mountains Mobility Conference.
• [2019.06.15] Talk at the ICML workshop on AI for Autonomous Driving.

Publications

You can find my articles on my Google Scholar profile.