Since Fall 2009, he is also Director of the Intel Labs Seattle, a research lab with close ties to the University of Washington. Dieter obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Bonn, Germany. Before going to UW, he spent two years as a postdoctoral researcher at the CMU Robot Learning Lab. Dieter's research is in artificial intelligence, with a focus on state estimation applied to robotics and activity recognition. Dieter has published over 100 technical papers and is co-author of the text book "Probabilistic Robotics". He received an NSF CAREER Award and several best paper awards at major robotics and AI conferences. He is an editor of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics and was program co-chair of the 2008 AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence..