Jean-Claude Latombe
Kumagai Professor Emeritus, School of
Engineering, Computer Science Department
Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-9010
Email: [email protected]
To prospective
and admitted graduate students:
I am retired and no longer advise graduate and postdoctoral students.
Administrative contact:
Alex Sandra Pinedo
Email: [email protected]
Recent News:
Three of my former PhD and Postdoctoral students have been
elected at the National Academies of Sciences of their respective countries:
- Jocelyne Troccaz was elected to the French Academy of
Sciences in 2022,
- Rafael Murrietta was elected to the Mexican Academy of
Sciences in 2022,
- Lydia Kavraki was elected to the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences in 2023, the US National Academy of Engineering in 2025, and
the US National Academy of Sciences in 2025.
Research:
Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Motion Planning,
Computational Structural Biology, Graphic Animation
Former
Group Members (students, postdocs, and visitors)
Courses:
CS121 (Introduction to Artificial Intelligence)
CS273
(Algorithms for Structure and Motion in Biology)
CS26N (Motion Planning for Robots, Digital Actors, and
Other Moving Objects)
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