Kostas E. Bekris

Kostas Bekris is a Professor of Computer Science at Rutgers University, Department Chair of Computer Science for the period 2026-2029 and an Amazon Scholar with Amazon Robotics since 2019. He has served as Program Chair and General Chair for the most selective conference in robotics, the “Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS)” conference, as well as Program Chair for the World Symposium on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR) conference. He has also served in multiple editorial roles for robotics journal (IJRR) and conferences (IEEE ICRA/IROS, CoRL,etc.). He currently serves in the RSS Foundation Board. His research has been supported by NSF, DHS, DOD and NASA, including a NASA Early Career Faculty award.