Matthew Johnson-Roberson

Matthew Johnson-Roberson is director of the Robotics Institute and professor of computer science in the in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He previously co-directed the UM Ford Center for Autonomous Vehicles (FCAV) and he founded and leads the DROP (Deep Robot Optical Perception) Lab, which researches 3D reconstruction, segmentation, data mining, and visualization.

He received a Ph.D. from the University of Sydney and he has held prior postdoctoral appointments with the Centre for Autonomous Systems - CAS at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and the Australian Centre for Field Robotics at the University of Sydney.

He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award (2015).