Radu B. Rusu is the CEO and Co-Founder of Fyusion, Inc.
Radu is also affiliated with the public benefit Open Perception organization where he acts as its President. Before Fyusion, Radu was a Visiting Lecturer at Stanford University, a Research Scientist at Willow Garage where he created the Point Cloud Library (PCL) project, and a world renowned expert in 3D data processing with over 10 years of experience in the field.
Radu received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM), Germany in 2009 with summa cum laude. During his Ph.D., Radu was affiliated with the CoTeSys (Cognition for Technical Systems) excellence cluster at TUM, the AIC (Artificial Intelligence Center) at SRI (Stanford Research Institute) as an International Fellow Researcher, and Willow Garage, working on 3D semantic mapping techniques for mobile robots.
Over the past years, Radu has been onthe board of many workshops and scientific events in the field, held at prestigious conferences such as: RSS, ICRA, IROS, ECCV, ICCV, AAAI, CVPR, 3DIMPVT, etc.
He has co-/authored over 70 peer- reviewed scientific publications, including 2 books, and three best paper awards and nominations (ICAR 2009, RSS 2011, and EURON George Giralt PhD award). Radu is a senior IEEE member, and the recipient of theIEEE RAS Early Career Award 2013. Radu also won the Open Source Software (OSS) World Challenge in 2011 with PCL.