Meet the Speaker: Henrick Christensen

Henrik I. Christensen is the Qualcomm Chancellor’s Chair of Robot Systems and a distinguished professor of computer science at UC San Diego. He is also the director of the Contextual Robotics Institute @ UCSD. He does research on robotics, computer vision and AI with an emphasis on a systems approach.

Dr. Christensen has published 400+ contribution. Prior to UCSD he has held academic appointments at Georgia Tech, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and Aalborg University. He is also an entrepreneur and has founded six companies. In the investment world he co-founded Robo-Global that manages ~$3B in investments across robotics, AI and healthcare.

Henrik is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, and has served on many editorial boards. He is the main editor of the US National Robotics Roadmap (2009, 2013, 2016 and 2020) that is presented to the Congress of the United States.