He received his Ph.D.~degree in Computer Science from the University of Bonn in 1991. His areas of interest lie in artificial intelligence and mobile robots. Over the past years his research mainly focused on the development of robust and adaptive techniques for state estimation and control of autonomous mobile robots. He and his group developed several innovative probabilistic techniques for robot navigation and control. They cover different aspects such as localization, map-building, path-planning, and exploration. For his work on navigation techniques for mobile robots Wolfram Burgard received several best paper awards at outstanding national and international conferences including AAAI-98, IROS-98, ICRA-2000, IROS-2002, and IROS 2004.