Dominick Vanthienen is VP, Technology Innovation at Intermodalics, a robotics software solution provider based in Leuven, Belgium that counts NASA, Google, Bosch and others among their customers. Before joining Intermodalics, he was active as a researcher at Philips and KULeuven. Vanthienen took part in the PR2 beta program of Willow Garage and was active contributor to core packages of the ROS ecosystem. He holds a PhD in Robotics from KU Leuven and a MsC in Mechanical Engineering from EPFL.