Cyrill Stachniss is currently a lecturer at the University of Freiburg
in Germany. Until September 2010, he had a 1-year full professor
position during the sabbatical of Wolfram Burgard and was heading the
lab for Autonomous Intelligent Systems in Freiburg. Cyrill Stachniss
finished bis habilitation in November 2009 after working as an
academic advisor for two years also at the University of Freiburg and
being a guest lecturer at the University of Zaragoza in Spain.  Before
that, was a senior researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology in the Autonomous Systems Lab of Roland Siegwart. In April
2006, he finished his PhD thesis entitled "Exploration and Mapping
with Mobile Robots" and supervised by Wolfram Burgard at the
Department of Computer Science, University of Freiburg.  Before being
a PhD student, he studied physics ("Vordiplom"/B.Sc.) and computer
science ("Diplom"/M.Sc.) at the University of Marburg and Freiburg.
Since 2008, he is an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on
Robotics and since 2010 a Microsoft Research Faculty Fellow.  In his
research, he focuses on probabilistic techniques in the context of
mobile robotics, perception, and navigation problems.  He is also
interested in classification and learning approaches including scene
analysis as well as in computer controlled cars and computer vision.