Byron Boots
Amazon Professor of Machine Learning at the University of Washington; co-founder and CEO of Overland AI
- Professor; Amazon Professor of Machine Learning; director of the UW Robot Learning Laboratory, University of Washington (Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering)21
- Co-founder and chief executive officer, Overland AI3
Byron Boots is the Amazon Professor of Machine Learning in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, where Boots directs the UW Robot Learning Laboratory, and the co-founder and chief executive officer of Overland AI, which builds autonomous land systems. Boots's group works on theory and systems that integrate perception, learning and control, including state estimation, mapping, high-speed navigation, motion planning and manipulation. Boots was previously an assistant professor in Georgia Tech's School of Interactive Computing and is a co-author of the papers behind GPMP2, an open-source Gaussian-process motion planner started at the Georgia Tech Robot Learning Lab.1234
Work
GPMP2 (Gaussian Process Motion Planner 2) (external site: github.com)Open-source code
Co-author of the RSS 2016 and IJRR papers that the BSD-licensed GPMP2 library implements and asks people to cite; the README says the library was started at the Georgia Tech Robot Learning Lab, and Boots's homepage marks the IJRR paper as IJRR Paper of the Year.41
Other documented roles
Roles the sources document but that are not confirmed as current.
- Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology (School of Interactive Computing)1
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