Stefan Schaal was born on 1961 and is a German-American computer scientist specializing in robotics, machine learning, autonomous systems, and computational neuroscience.
15 Facts About Stefan Schaal
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Schaal was born in Frankfurt am Main in Germany, Schaal grew up in the North Bavarian town of Nurnberg.
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Stefan Schaal studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Munich, graduating in 1987 with a Diploma degree.
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In 1991, Stefan Schaal was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department and Brain and Cognitive Science and the Artificial Intelligence Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the German Academic Scholarship Foundation.
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In 1994, Stefan Schaal moved to the Georgia Institute of Technology as an adjunct assistant professor, and held the same rank at the Pennsylvania State University.
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In 1996, Stefan Schaal assumed a group leader position in the ERATO Kawato Dynamic Brain Project in Japan.
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Stefan Schaal joined the University of Southern California in 1997, where he advanced from the ranks of assistant professor, to associate professor, to full professor.
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In 2009, Stefan Schaal became a founder in defining and creating the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tubingen and Stuttgart, Germany, an institute focusing on principles of perception-action-learning systems in synthetic intelligence.
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In 2012, Stefan Schaal founded the Autonomous Motion Department at this institute, while maintaining a partial appointment at USC.
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Stefan Schaal joined Google X as lead of a robotics research team in late 2018.
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Stefan Schaal's interests focus on autonomous perception-action-learning systems, in particular anthropomorphic robotic systems.
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Stefan Schaal has co-authored more than 400 publications in top conferences and journals, and served as organizer on various top conferences in machine learning and robotics.
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Stefan Schaal has received numerous best paper awards and honors in his scientific community.
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Stefan Schaal has been noted as one of the five leaders in robotics in 2011, and among the top robotics experts in the world.
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Stefan Schaal rejected the allegations, but was forced to leave his position at the Max Planck Institute.