Chunrong Yuan / 袁春蓉

The Person

• Birthplace
  Jiangsu, China
  
  
• Nationality
  
  
  
• Position
  Professor
  
  
• Address
  Technische Hochschule Köln
  Faculty of Information, Media and Electrical Engineering
  Betzdorferstr. 2
  D-50679 Köln
  Germany
  
  
• Telephone
  +49-221-8275 2425
  
  
• Email
  yuan@computer.org
  
  
• Homepage
  https://www.th-koeln.de/personen/chunrong.yuan/
  
  

Education

• 1989
  B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University, P.R. China
  
  
• 1992
  M.Sc. in Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Control, Shanghai Jiaotong University, P.R. China
  
  
• 2004
  Dr.-Ing. in Computer Vision, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
  
  

Working experiences

• 1992-1997
  Researcher at the Institute of Image Processing and Pattern Recognition, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  
  
• 1997-2001
  Researcher at the Pattern Recognition Lab, Department of Computer Science, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
  
  
• 2002-2006
  Area Leader (Computer Vision) at CVAE (Collaborative Virtual and Augmented Environments), Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology FIT
  
  
• 2007-2012
  Group leader (Autonomous Robots) at the Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, Faculty of Science, University Tübingen
  
  
• Since 2012
  Professor of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Head of Autonomous Systems Lab, TH Köln
  
  

Research interests

• Computer & Robot Vision
• Mobile Autonomous Systems
• Human-Robot Interaction and Collaboration
• Autonomous Sensing, Mapping and Navigation