David Hsu

David Hsu is a Provost's Chair Professor in the Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore (NUS) and the Director of Smart Systems Institute. He received BSc in computer science & mathematics from The University of British Columbia and PhD in computer science from Stanford University. At NUS, he co-founded NUS Advanced Robotics Center in 2013. He founded the NUS AI Laboratory (NUSAIL) in 2019 and served as the founding director. He held visiting positions in MIT Aeronautics & Astronautics Department and CMU Robotics Institue. He is an IEEE Fellow.

His research interests span robotics, AI, and computational structural biology. In recent years, he has been working on robot planning and learning under uncertainty and human-robot collaboration. His work won multiple international awards, including, most recently, Test of Time Award at Robotics: Science & Systems (RSS), 2021. More information on his research is available on the Adaptive Computing Lab (AdaComp) web site.

He has chaired or co-chaired several major international robotics conferences, including WAFR 2004 and 2010, RSS 2015, ICRA 2016, and CoRL 2021. He served on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research. He is currently an associate editor of International Journal of Robotics Research.