Dr. Lu Gan

Biography

Lu Gan joined the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology as an Assistant Professor in January 2024. He leads Lu's Autonomous Robotics (Lunar) Lab at Georgia Tech and is a core faculty member of the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines. His research interests encompass robot perception, robot learning, and autonomy, with a particular focus on utilizing computer vision, machine learning, estimation, probabilistic inference, and kinematics dynamics to develop autonomous systems for ground, air, and space applications. He holds a B.S. in Automation from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, an M.S. in Control Engineering from Beihang University, and both an M.S. and Ph.D. in Robotics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, he completed a two-year appointment as a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Graduate Aerospace Laboratories of the California Institute of Technology and the Center for Autonomous Systems and Technologies at Caltech.

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