Frank Dellaert

Robotics Ph.D. Program Director @ Georgia Institute of Technology

About

I have the pleasure of serving on the faculty in the School of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. While on leave from Georgia Tech, I helped create technical solutions for Skydio, Facebook Reality Labs, Google AI, and Verdant Robotics. As Chief AI Officer for Verdant Robotics, I am helping leverage the state-of-the-art in computer vision and robotics to improve the overall sustainability of food production – for our planet and the billions of people who depend on farmers every day.

Country

United States

City

Atlanta

Industry

Higher Education

Skill

Computer Vision, Robotics, Computer Science, Research, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Matlab, Image Processing, Algorithms, Mobile Robotics, Strategic Planning, Data Mining, Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition, Statistics, Mathematical Modeling, Science, LaTeX

Experience

Professor

Georgia Institute of Technology

2013-3 - Present · 13 yrs 7 mos

Greater Atlanta Area

Robotics Ph.D. Program Director

Georgia Institute of Technology

2013-7 - 2015-8 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Greater Atlanta Area

Evangelize and oversee all aspects of Georgia Tech's Robotics Ph.D. program

Associate Professor

Georgia Institute of Technology

2007-3 - 2013-3 · 6 yrs 1 mo

Assistant Professor

Georgia Institute of Technology

2001-8 - 2007-3 · 5 yrs 8 mos

Atlanta

Chief AI Officer

Verdant Robotics

2025-1 - Present · 1 yr 9 mos

CTO

Verdant Robotics

2022-8 - 2024-12 · 2 yrs 5 mos

San Francisco Bay Area

I am leading the expansion of computer vision and robotics applications to deliver faster, more complex agronomic solutions to increase the productivity and sustainability of global agriculture.

Research Scientist

Google

2020-1 - 2022-8 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

"Technical Project Lead" @ Building 8, Facebook

Facebook

2016-8 - 2018-8 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Menlo Park

Building 8's goal is to create and ship new, category-defining consumer hardware products that are social first. To do so at scale. And to power this with a breakthrough innovation engine modeled after DARPA.

Chief Scientist

Skydio

2015-3 - 2016-8 · 1 yr 6 mos

Atherton, CA

Skydio is an exciting startup in the drone space, and I'll be helping them as Chief Scientist while taking a leave from Georgia Tech until Summer 2016.

Visiting Professor

KU Leuven

2014-8 - 2015-7 · 1 yr

Leuven, Belgium

In the academic year 2014-2015 I will be a Visiting Professor at the KU Leuven, hosted by Professors Luc Van Gool and Tinne Tuytelaars in the ESAT/Visics Computer Vision Group.