Sebastian Thrun
Stanford University
Sebastian Thrun is a German-American computer scientist, entrepreneur, and educator. He is an adjunct professor at Stanford University and is known for his work in self-driving cars, robotics, artificial intelligence, and online education. He is the co-founder of Google X, co-founder of Udacity, and former chief executive officer of Kitty Hawk Corporation.
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Sebastian Thrun is a German-American computer scientist, entrepreneur, and educator. He is an adjunct professor at Stanford University and is known for his work in self-driving cars, robotics, artificial intelligence, and online education. He is the co-founder of Google X, co-founder of Udacity, and former chief executive officer of Kitty Hawk Corporation.
Affiliation
Stanford University
Top Publications
- Dermatologist-level classification of skin cancer with deep neural networks (2017) - 14,516 citations
- Probabilistic robotics (2002) - 8,089 citations
- A guide to deep learning in healthcare (2018) - 5,314 citations
- The dynamic window approach to collision avoidance (1997) - 3,814 citations
- Text Classification from Labeled and Unlabeled Documents using EM (2000) - 2,751 citations
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- Full name
- Sebastian Thrun
- OpenAlex ID
- https://openalex.org/A5066710774
Research interests
- Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization, Reinforcement Learning in Robotics, Robotic Path Planning Algorithms, Target Tracking and Data Fusion in Sensor Networks, Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety
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- 14,516OpenAlex citations
- Probabilistic robotics ↗2002 · Communications of the ACM8,089OpenAlex citations
- A guide to deep learning in healthcare ↗2018 · Nature Medicine5,314OpenAlex citations
- The dynamic window approach to collision avoidance ↗1997 · IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine3,814OpenAlex citations
- Text Classification from Labeled and Unlabeled Documents using EM ↗2000 · Machine Learning2,751OpenAlex citations
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- Probabilistic robotics ↗2002 · Communications of the ACM
- A guide to deep learning in healthcare ↗2018 · Nature Medicine
- The dynamic window approach to collision avoidance ↗1997 · IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine
- Text Classification from Labeled and Unlabeled Documents using EM ↗2000 · Machine Learning
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