Author: Ruzena Bajcsy
Affiliation: University of California, Berkeley
Country: USA
Personal Website: Ruzena Bajcsy

Bibliography: Ruzena Bajcsy, Klara Nahrstedt and Lisa Wymore, "Humans in Real and Virtual Space: Studies of Interaction and Collaboration Mediated by Information Technology", Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan, Vol. 24, No. 5, pp.573-575, 2006.

Dr. Ruzena Bajcsy is a professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of California, Berkeley. She was Director of CITRIS at the University of California, Berkeley between 2001 and 2005. She was Assistant Director of the Computer Information Science and Engineering Directorate (CISE) at the National Science Foundation between 1998 and 2001. She was a professor of computer science and engineering and Director of General Robotics and Active Sensory Perception Laboratory, which she founded in 1978, at the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Bajcsy is a pioneering researcher in machine perception, robotics and artificial intelligence. She has done seminal research in the areas of human-centered computer control, cognitive science, robotics, computerized radiological/medical image processing and artificial vision. She is highly regarded, not only for her significant research contributions, but also for her leadership in the creation of a world-class robotics laboratory, recognized world wide as a premiere research center. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, as well as the Institute of Medicine. She is especially known for her wide-ranging, broad outlook in the field and her cross-disciplinary talent and leadership in successfully bridging such diverse areas as robotics and artificial intelligence, engineering and cognitive science.
Dr. Bajcsy received her master’s and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Slovak Technical University in 1957 and 1967, respectively. She received a Ph.D. in computer science in 1972 from Stanford University, and since that time has been teaching and doing research at Penn’s Department of Computer and Information Science. Prior to her work at the University of Pennsylvania, she taught during the 1950s and 1960s as an instructor and assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics and Department of Computer Science at Slovak Technical University in Bratislava. In 2001 she received an honorary doctorate from University of Ljubljana in Slovenia
In 2001 she became a recipient of the ACM A. Newell award.