Artur Dubrawski

Artur Dubrawski considers himself a scientist and a practitioner; he has been tainted with some real world entrepreneurial experiences. He started up a small company which turned out to be successful in integration and deployment of advanced computerized control systems and novel technological devices. He had also been affiliated with startups incorporated by others: Schenley Park Research, a data mining consultancy, and a CMU spin-off, where he was a scientist; and (more recently) with Aethon, a company building robots to automate transportation in hospitals, where he served as a Chief Technical Officer. Dubrawski returned to CMU in 2003 to join the Robotics Institute's Auton Lab. He works on a range of applied data mining endeavors and teaches data mining to graduate students at the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy (which he has been doing since 2000). In his previous academic life, he worked mainly on machine learning approaches to mobile robot navigation and control, as well as on other applications of adaptive autonomous systems. In 1995 and 1996, Artur spent a year at CMU (with the Auton Lab) as a visiting Fulbright scholar. In January 2006, Artur Dubrawski was named the director of the Auton Lab.