Associate Professor
KU Leuven, Belgium
Renaud Detry is Associate Professor of Robot Learning at KU Leuven in Belgium, with a dual appointment in the Electrical and Mechanical Engineering groups (PSI and RAM). Previously, he served as group lead for the Perception Systems group at NASA JPL, Pasadena, CA, and held an Assistant Professorship at UCLouvain, Belgium. His research interests lie in robot learning and computer vision, particularly concerning robot manipulation and space robotics. While at JPL, Renaud led machine vision efforts for the surface mission of the NASA/ESA Mars Sample Return campaign. He is Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO), a member of the ELLIS Society, a member of the steering committee of Leuven.AI, and a technical advisor for Opal-AI.com.