Achim J. Lilienthal is professor of Computer Science at TU Munich, Germany, where he leads the chair "Perception for Intelligent Systems". He is coordinator of the Horizon 2020 project DARKO, manager of the project "KI.Fabrik" at the German Technology Museum in Munich and guest professor at the University of Örebro, Sweden, where he established the Mobile Robotics and Olfaction lab and two spinoff companies: Retenua and QTPIE. His is also PI in the Erasmus+ project MADITA and associated to the project KI-ALF.
His core research interest is in perception systems in unconstrained, dynamic environments. Typically based on approaches that leverage domain knowledge and AI, his research addresses mobile robot olfaction, rich 3D perception, navigation of autonomous transport robots, human-robot interaction, eye-tracking support systems, and mathematics education research. Achim J. Lilienthal obtained his Ph.D. in computer science from Tübingen University with a thesis about gas distribution mapping and gas source localization with mobile robots. He has published more than 300 refereed conference papers and journal articles, has co-edited several special issues, is senior member of IEEE and evaluator for several national funding agencies and the EU.
Achim J. Lilienthal has been teaching bachelor's, master's and postgraduate courses in computer science, robotics, and physics. He has attended the mandatory pedagogical training at Swedish Universities (three courses that together amount to over 300 hours of training: 225 hours in courses on "Learning and Teaching in Higher Education" (part 1 and 2), and 85 hours in a course on "Doctoral Supervision") and gained teaching experience by developing and maintaining courses and through his involvement in the development of an international master's program "AI and Robotics" at the University of Örebro. In addition to lectures and seminars at his affiliated universities in Örebro, Tübingen and Konstanz, he has also given guest lectures at the universities of Málaga (2008), Tianjin (2009, 2019), and Barcelona (2012).