Florian Shkurti

Assistant Professor, AI2050 Early Career Fellow

Year

2024
Program

AI2050
Institution

University of Toronto
Location

Canada

Florian Shkurti is an assistant professor in computer science at the University of Toronto, where he leads the Robot Vision and Learning lab (http://rvl.cs.toronto.edu/). He is a faculty member of the University of Toronto Robotics Institute, the Acceleration Consortium, and a faculty affiliate at Vector Institute. His research group develops methods that enable robots to perceive, reason, plan, and act effectively and safely, particularly in dynamic environments and alongside humans. Application areas of his research include mobile manipulation robotics for chemistry lab automation, field robotics for environmental monitoring, and visual navigation for autonomous vehicles. He is the recipient of the Alexander Graham Bell Doctoral Award, the Amazon Research Award in Robotics, the Connaught New Researcher Award, and the TRI Young Faculty Researcher award.