Kris Hauser
Professor at Samsung Research America (SRA)
Champaign, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolKris Hauser is a robotics researcher and professor with 13 years of professional experience building practical, reliable, and intelligent robot systems across academia and industry. He leads the Intelligent Motion Lab at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, developing platform- and application-agnostic methods in planning, perception, learning, and control that transfer across manipulation, agriculture, construction, autonomous driving, and medical domains. Kris has bridged research and production as a Software Engineering Consultant at Waymo and now serves as Head of Robotic Intelligence at Samsung Research America, demonstrating a rare mix of deep theory and product-focused engineering. Educated at Stanford (PhD) and UC Berkeley (BA in Computer Science and Mathematics), he combines rigorous foundations with cross-domain impact. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic and inventive—able to turn complex motion and perception problems into deployable systems that work in the real world.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Stanford University
Github Skills (55)
textbook10
robotics10
geometry-library10
robot-control10
geometry10
routines10
trajectory-generation10
mathematics10
manipulation10
dynamics10
planning10
motion-planning10
jupyter9
model-driven9
notebook9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
krishauser/Klampt-examples
Dec 2018 - Jul 2022
Examples for Klampt in C++, Python, and Jupyter notebook
Contributions:172 commits, 6 PRs, 95 pushes in 3 years 8 months
jupyter-notebooknotebookpythonjupyter
krishauser/cs498ir_s2021
Jan 2021 - Jan 2022
CS 498 course AI for Robotic Manipulation, Spring 2021
Contributions:77 commits, 2 PRs, 45 pushes in 1 year
manipulationspringroboticsrobotic-manipulation
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