{"id":13797,"date":"2018-03-15T16:43:32","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T20:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=13797"},"modified":"2024-09-09T21:53:32","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T01:53:32","slug":"roberto-tron","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/profile\/roberto-tron\/","title":{"rendered":"Roberto Tron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><\/span><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/profile\/roberto-tron\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Roberto Tron<\/a> is an Associate Professor in the Mechanical Engineering department at Boston University. He received his bachelors and masters degrees (highest honors) from the Politecnico di Torino, Italy. He received a Diplome d\u2019Engenieur from the Eurecom Institute and a DEA degree from the Universit\u00e9 de Nice Sophia-Antipolis in 2006. Tron obtained his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The Johns Hopkins University in 2012, and has been a post-doctoral researcher with the GRASP Lab at the University of Pennsylvania until 2015. <\/span><span>He was recognized at the IEEE Conference on Decision and\u00a0Control with the \u201cGeneral Chair\u2019s Interactive Presentation Recognition Award\u201d in 2009,\u00a0the \u201cBest Student Paper Runner-up\u201d in 2011, and the \u201cBest Student Paper Award\u201d in 2012. \u00a0<\/span><span>His research interests lie at the intersection of automatic control,\u00a0robotics and computer vision, with a particular interest in applications that involve Riemannian geometry, and distributed algorithms for multi-agents systems.\u00a0<\/span><span>He is also the main author of the\u00a0Hopkins 155\u00a0dataset, a popular benchmark for multiview affine motion segmentation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tron\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=fXPO6U0AAAAJ&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Scholar Profile<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8550,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/13797"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8550"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/13797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29174,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/13797\/revisions\/29174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}