Prof George Konidaris, Ph.D. (University of Massachusetts Amherst), MSc (University of Edinburgh); BSc 2000 and BScHons 2001 (Wits)

George Konidaris is an Assistant Professor of​ ​​Computer Science at Brown, where his​ ​​research focuses on artificial intelligence and​ ​robotics. He is also a co-founder and the​ ​Chief Roboticist of Realtime Robotics,​ ​a startup based on hardware-accelerated​ ​motion planning technology he co-invented​ ​while he was at Duke.

George also serves on​ ​the Advisory Board of the Deep Learning​ ​Indaba. He is the recent recipient of​ ​young faculty awards from DARPA and the​ ​AFOSR, and the Richard B. Salomon Faculty​ ​Research Award from Brown.

Prior to joining Brown, he held a faculty position at Duke and was a postdoctoral researcher at MIT.