Wolfram Burgard
Wolfram Burgard researches robotics, AI, learning and computer vision. His shared work includes probabilistic robotics and methods for mobile-robot localization. Burgard earned a Bonn computer-science doctorate in December 1991, worked there as a research scientist through 1999 and became a Freiburg associate professor in 1999. With Sebastian Thrun and Dieter Fox, Burgard co-authored Probabilistic Robotics, published by MIT Press in 2005. He also coauthored work on particle filters for robot localization. He led automated-driving and machine-learning work at Toyota Research Institute from January 2019 to March 2021. He became a full professor at Nuremberg and its founding department chair in 2022.
- Now at
- University of Technology Nuremberg
- Works
- 794
- Citations
- 73,495
- h-index
- 116
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.
Timeline
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1991–1999
Bonn research and Freiburg faculty
Burgard earned a Bonn computer-science doctorate in December 1991, worked there as a research scientist through 1999 and became a Freiburg associate professor in 1999.
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2005
A shared robotics textbook
With Sebastian Thrun and Dieter Fox, Burgard co-authored Probabilistic Robotics, published by MIT Press in 2005. He also coauthored work on particle filters for robot localization.
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2019–2022
Industrial and university AI
He led automated-driving and machine-learning work at Toyota Research Institute from January 2019 to March 2021. He became a full professor at Nuremberg and its founding department chair in 2022.
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As of October 2026
Learning and mobile manipulation
He works with teams on robot skill acquisition, multi-robot coordination, map construction and navigation.
Sources and credits
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