Roland Angst

Roland Angst is the Head of the ASUS Robotics and AI Center in Singapore and Senior Director, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics at ASUS in Taipei. Since November 2015, he has served as a lead software architect for ASUS Zenbo, an Android-based robot for the home, and as lead advisor for cross-functional robotics, computer vision, and machine learning teams. Prior to joining ASUS, Angst was affiliated with the Center for Visual Computing and Communication at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics as a Junior Group Leader of the Vision, Geometry, and Computational Perception Group. He was also was visiting assistant professor with the Image, Video, and Multimedia Systems and the Geometric Computation groups at Stanford University. Angst holds PhD in computer vision from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich.