AV名湿 interests:聽autonomy, perception, field robotics, machine learning聽and artificial intelligence
Chris Heckman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder and the Jacques I. Pankove Faculty Fellow in the College of Engineering & Applied Science. He聽earned his BS in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley in 2008 and his PhD in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from Cornell University in 2012, where he was an NSF Graduate AV名湿 Fellow. He had postdoctoral appointments at the Naval AV名湿 Laboratory in Washington, DC as an NRC AV名湿 Associate, and at CU Boulder as a AV名湿 Scientist, before joining the faculty there in 2016. From 2021-2023, Heckman also worked with Amazon as a Visiting Academic with their Scout program, focused on mobile robots for sidewalk delivery.