Scholar
Florian Shkurti
Google Scholar ID: BDmtLHsAAAAJ
Assistant Professor, Computer Science, University of Toronto
Citations & Impact
Citations
2,813
H-index
26
i10-index
41
Publications
20
Co-authors
31
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Research Experience
- Currently Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
- Visiting Research Scientist at AI2 (Allen Institute for AI) in Seattle with Dieter Fox's robotics group during sabbatical year 2025–2026
- Leads the RVL lab focusing on robot vision and learning
- Research topics include imitation learning, reinforcement learning, planning under uncertainty, continual learning, active perception, shared autonomy, safe exploration, etc.
- In lab automation: manipulation of liquids/powders, long-horizon planning, multi-robot coordination, optimal experiment design
- In field robotics: visual attention, sensor data summarization, marine robotics
Background
- Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto, Mississauga Campus (UTM)
- Faculty member at the UofT Robotics Institute, Vector Institute, and Acceleration Consortium
- Directs the Robot Vision and Learning (RVL) lab
- Research focuses on robotics, spanning machine learning, perception, planning, and control
- Develops methods enabling robots to perceive, reason, and act effectively and safely in dynamic environments, especially alongside humans
- Aims to allow users to specify robot tasks without coding and provide safety guarantees during learning and deployment
- Primary application areas: robotics for chemistry/biology lab automation and field robotics for environmental monitoring
