18 Facts About Sebastian Thrun

Sebastian Thrun was born on May 14,1967 and is a German-American entrepreneur, educator, and computer scientist.

Sebastian Thrun is chief executive officer of Kitty Hawk Corporation, and chairman and co-founder of Udacity.

Sebastian Thrun is an adjunct professor at Stanford University and at Georgia Tech.

Sebastian Thrun's team developed a vehicle called Junior, which placed second at the DARPA Urban Challenge in 2007.

Sebastian Thrun is well known for his work on probabilistic algorithms for robotics with applications including robot localization and robotic mapping.

Sebastian Thrun was born in 1967 in Solingen, Germany, the son of Winfried and Kristin Sebastian Thrun.

Sebastian Thrun completed his Vordiplom in computer science, economics, and medicine at the University of Hildesheim in 1988.

In 2001 Sebastian Thrun spent a sabbatical year at Stanford University.

Sebastian Thrun returned to CMU to an endowed professorship, the Finmeccanica Associate Professor of Computer Science and Robotics.

Sebastian Thrun left CMU in July 2003 to become an associate professor at Stanford University and was appointed as the director of SAIL in January 2004.

From 2007 to 2011, Sebastian Thrun was a full professor of computer science and electrical engineering at Stanford.

Sebastian Thrun was a Google VP and Fellow, and worked on development of the Google driverless car system, after winning DARPA Grand Challenge and finishing in second place in DARPA Urban Challenge as a professor.

Sebastian Thrun developed a number of autonomous robotic systems that earned him international recognition.

In 2002, Thrun helped develop mine mapping robots in a project with his colleagues William L Whittaker and Scott Thayer, research professors at Carnegie Mellon University.

Sebastian Thrun joined Google as part of a sabbatical, together with several Stanford students.

Sebastian Thrun's best known contributions to robotics are on the theoretical end.

Sebastian Thrun contributed to the area of probabilistic robotics, a field that marries statistics and robotics.

Sebastian Thrun is one of the principal investors of the Stanford spin-off VectorMagic.