Dr. Laurent Kneip is an Associate Professor at the School of
Information Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University. He graduated as a
Diplom-Ingenieur in mechatronics engineering from the
Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen/Nürnberg
(2008). In 2013, he received his PhD from the Autonomous Systems Lab (ASL) of
the Eidgenössische
Technische Hochschule (ETH) in Zurich. In 2015, he was awarded the prestigious
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) from the Australian Research
Council (ARC). He joined the School of Information Science and Technology at
ShanghaiTech University in 2017 and was promoted to tenured Associate Professor
in 2020. He founded and directs the Mobile Perception Lab, and co-directs the ShanghaiTech Automation and Robotics center (STAR). Dr Laurent Kneip received an honorable mention for the Marr Prize in 2017.
