Gregory Dudek

About

Gregory Dudek is a chaired professor of computer science at McGill University, was the Director of the McGill Center for Intelligent Machines from 2004 to 2007, and was the Director of the McGill University School of Computer Science from 2008 to 2016. He served as the Scientific Director of the NSERC Canadian Field Robotics Network from 2012 to 2018. He became Scientific Director and Lead Investigatior or it ssuccessor the NSERC Canadian Robotics Network. In 2018, Samsung announced that he would become a VP Research and Lead their new Samsung AI Center in Montreal (SAIC-Montreal). He is the son of poet Louis Dudek, he was made a Dawson Scholar of that university and subsequently James McGill Chair, and directs the mobile robotics laboratory there. He has written over 300 refereed articles on computer vision and robotics, and is co-author of the book Computational Principles of Mobile Robotics which is used to teach robotics at a number of universities [1].