Christoph Mertz

In 1998, Christoph received his Ph.D. in physics from Arizona State University. After continuing his nuclear physics research for another year, he joined the CMU Robotics Institute research staff. There he developed surround sensing and object detection systems for intelligent vehicles and search and rescue robots. In 2016, Dr. Mertz became Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at RoadBotics while remaining Principal Project Scientist at CMU.