Dieter Fox is a German-American roboticist and a Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle.

He is also the Senior Director of Robotics Research at Nvidia.

[1] He received his PhD in Computer Science at the University of Bonn in 1998 on mobile robot localization and navigation.

[2] He is most notable for his contributions to several fields including robotics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and ubiquitous computing.

Together with Wolfram Burgard and Sebastian Thrun he is a co-author of the book Probabilistic Robotics.