Danica Kragic

Danica Kragic is a professor of computer science at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden, whose work centres on robotics: vision-based systems and the robotic manipulation of objects. She was born in Rijeka, Croatia, and trained first as a mechanical engineer, receiving her MSc in Mechanical Engineering from the Technical University of Rijeka in 1995, before taking her PhD in computer science at KTH in 2001. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers named her a Fellow in 2016 for those contributions to vision-based systems and robotic object manipulation. She is co-director of the Swedish research programme Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program, was nominated in March 2019 for the board of directors of the Swedish fashion group H&M, and in 2019 was named Sweden's most powerful woman in technology by the Swedish Business Week.