Roberto Tron

Roberto Tron is an Associate Professor in the Mechanical Engineering department at Boston University. He received his bachelors and masters degrees (highest honors) from the Politecnico di Torino, Italy. He received a Diplome d’Engenieur from the Eurecom Institute and a DEA degree from the Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis in 2006. Tron obtained his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The Johns Hopkins University in 2012, and has been a post-doctoral researcher with the GRASP Lab at the University of Pennsylvania until 2015. He was recognized at the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control with the “General Chair’s Interactive Presentation Recognition Award” in 2009, the “Best Student Paper Runner-up” in 2011, and the “Best Student Paper Award” in 2012.  His research interests lie at the intersection of automatic control, robotics and computer vision, with a particular interest in applications that involve Riemannian geometry, and distributed algorithms for multi-agents systems. He is also the main author of the Hopkins 155 dataset, a popular benchmark for multiview affine motion segmentation.

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