Tomás Lozano-Pérez

Tomás Lozano-Pérez is a Cuban-American computer science professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and member of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. On the MIT faculty since 1981, he conducts research in robotics, motion planning and geometric algorithms, and their applications.^[2]

Tomás Lozano-Pérez
Born	Guantanamo, Cuba[1]
Alma mater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Scientific career
Fields	Robotics, Motion Planning
Institutions	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thesis	Spatial Planning with Polyhedral Models  (1980)
Doctoral advisor	Berthold K.P. Horn
Notable students	Matthew T. Mason Bruce Donald

Awards and honors

• 2011 IEEE Robotics Pioneer Award
• 1985 Presidential Young Investigator Award
• A Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers^[2]