Jur van den Berg
Postdoctoral Research Associate

Department of Computer Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Office: Sitterson Hall 204
Phone: (919) 843 7424
E-mail: berg@cs.unc.edu

Publications

Software

Research

Curriculum Vitae

Teaching

CURRICULUM VITAE

  • Personal Information
    name van den Berg
    given names Jur Pieter
    title dr. (Ph.D.)
    date of birth 27 May 1981
    place of birth Groningen, The Netherlands
    e-mail berg@cs.unc.edu
    citizenship The Netherlands

  • Education
    2003 - 2007 PhD Computer Science
    Universiteit Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
    diploma: 4 April 2007
    dissertation title: Path Planning in Dynamic Environments
    supervisor: prof. Mark H. Overmars
    committee: prof Steve LaValle (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA), prof. Dan Halperin (Tel-Aviv University, Israel), prof. Jean-Paul Laumond (LAAS-CNRS Toulouse, France), prof. Gert Vegter (University of Groningen, The Netherlands), prof. Jan van Leeuwen (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
    1998 - 2003 Study Computer Science (bachelors and masters)
    Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
    diploma: 28 February 2003, cum laude
    thesis title: Calculating near-densest lattice packings of nonconvex objects to minimize computational box volumes in Molecular Dynamics simulations
    supervisor: dr. H. Bekker
    1992 - 1998 VWO (preparatory scientific education)
    Wessel Gansfortcollege, Groningen, The Netherlands

  • Professional Experience
    Jul 2007 - today Postdoctoral Research Associate
    Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Apr 2007 - Jun 2007 Scientific Researcher
    Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Universiteit Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
    Mar 2003 - Mar 2007 PhD Student
    Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Universiteit Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
    Sep 2000 - Feb 2003 Teaching Assistant
    Department of Mathematics and Computing Science, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

  • Teaching Experience
    2008 Co-teacher of Robotics course at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    2007 - 2008 Supervising various graduate students at UNC in obtaining and publishing scientific results
    2007 Co-teacher of course Motion Planning in Real and Virtual Worlds at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    2006 - 2007 Supervisor of a student doing his master's thesis work at Klingelnberg Company, Hückeswagen, Germany in collaboration with Universiteit Utrecht
    2005 Supervisor of two students doing an experimentation project at Universiteit Utrecht
    2003 - 2006 Tutorial lecturer for the Graphics course (2003/2004, 2004/2005, 2005/2006) at Universiteit Utrecht.
    2000 - 2003 Teaching assistant for various courses at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

  • Invited Talks
    Jun 2008 Invited lecture at Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA
    Jun 2008 Invited lecture at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
    Mar 2008 Invited lecture at Duke University, Durham, NC
    Oct 2006 Invited lecture at the Seminar on Robot Navigation (Dagstuhl, Germany)
    Jul 2006 Lecture at the Dutch Computational Geometry Day (Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
    Nov 2005 Two lectures at Tel-Aviv University, Israel
    Feb 2005 Lecture at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
    Jan 2005 Lecture at the Dutch Computational Geometry Day (Utrecht, The Netherlands)
    Jan 2005 Invited lecture at the Workshop on Motion Planning in Virtual Environments (Toulouse, France)
    Mar 2004 Lecture at the Dutch Computational Geometry Day (Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
    Sep 2002 Invited lecture at the Annual BIOMOS Meeting (Alf-Mosel, Germany)

  • Reviewer for
    journals Autonomous Robots
    Artificial Intelligence Journal
    IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
    IEEE Transactions on Robotics
    International Journal of Robotics Research
    conferences ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms
    Graphics Interface
    IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering
    IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
    IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems
    Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics
    Robotics: Science and Systems

  • Program Committee member for
      Robotics: Science and Systems (2008)
    Video/Multimedia committee for the Symposium on Computational Geometry (2009)

  • Associate Editor for
      IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (2009)

  • Publications
    (see Publications)

  • Software
    (see Software)

  • Languages
    Dutch (native)
    English (fluent)
    German