Professor Dr. Javier Alonso Mora

Biography

Javier Alonso-Mora is an associate professor in the Department of Cognitive Robotics at Delft University of Technology, where he leads the Autonomous Multi-robots Laboratory. His research focuses on developing new methods for navigation, motion planning, learning, and control of autonomous mobile robots, with particular emphasis on multi-robot systems, on-demand transport, and robots interacting with other robots and humans in dynamic and uncertain environments. His applications include self-driving vehicles, mobile manipulators, micromobile aerial vehicles, last-mile logistics, and ride-sharing, contributing to the smart cities of the future. Prior to joining TU Delft, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Computer Science Artificial Intelligence Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He holds a Ph.D. in robotics from ETH Zurich and has collaborated with leading institutions such as Disney Research Zurich and the Autonomous Systems Lab. He has received several prestigious awards, including the IEEE T-ASE Paper Award, an ERC Starting Grant, and is actively engaged in the Delft robotics ecosystem.

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