2025 IEEE Robotics & Automation Pioneer Award
Wolfram Burgard University of Technology Nuremberg Germany For pioneering contributions to probabilistic state estimation, perception, and learning in robotics. Wolfram Burgard is a distinguished Professor of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Technology Nuremberg, and the Founding Chair of the Computer Science and AI Department. He studied Computer Science at the University of Bonn, where he also received his PhD. From 1999 to 2021, he was a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Freiburg. His expertise in AI and mobile robots has led to ground-breaking contributions in robot perception and learning, particularly in robot localization and simultaneous localization and mapping, which are foundational for applications like robotic logistics and self-driving cars. He has published over 400 papers and articles in robotics and AI, and co-authored two influential books: Principles of Robot Motion Theory, Algorithms, and Implementations and Probabilistic Robotics. He has received numerous accolades, including the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (2009), an ERC Advanced Grant (2010), the IEEE Technical Field Award for Robotics and Automation (2022), and a distinguished Professorship of the Free State of Bavaria (2022).
He is a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, and a fellow of AAAI, IEEE, EurAI, and ELLIS. He has received 16 best paper awards and three most influential paper awards. From 2018 to 2019, he served as President of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, and he is currently the Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics.
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