{"id":8490,"date":"2024-01-26T13:25:03","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T12:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sci4gi.mediassociations.fr\/?post_type=coup-de-coeur&p=8490"},"modified":"2025-06-30T17:55:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T15:55:02","slug":"margarita-chli-professor-specializing-in-robotics-and-computer-vision","status":"publish","type":"coup-de-coeur","link":"https:\/\/sciencesforgirls.com\/en\/coup-de-coeur\/margarita-chli-professor-specializing-in-robotics-and-computer-vision\/","title":{"rendered":"Margarita CHLI: Professor specializing in robotics and computer vision"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The idea of \u200b\u200bcontributing, even in a modest way, to improving the quality of life and changing the way people look at robotics<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Margarita CHLI is one of the few women leaders in the field of robotics and computer vision. Her guiding principle? \u201cThe idea of \u200b\u200bcontributing, even in a modest way, to improving the quality of life and changing the way people view robotics.\u201d For her, robots are there to \u201csupport\u201d humans and improve their daily lives, not replace them. Discover this scientist\u2019s inspiring journey, through her career, her projects, the accolades she has received, and finally, her vision of women in the world of robotics.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Biography and career<\/h3>\n
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After spending her childhood in Greece and Cyprus, Margarita Chli studied computer science and information engineering at Trinity College, University of Cambridge, UK, from 2001 to 2005.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In 2006, she continued her graduate studies at Imperial College London as a doctoral student and research associate in the Robot Vision Group.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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After completing her studies after obtaining her doctorate, she joined the Autonomous Systems Lab at ETH Zurich in 2010 to conduct research. She quickly became a lecturer and deputy laboratory director. She taught courses on autonomous mobile robotics and then made her courses freely available to thousands of researchers around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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From 2013 to 2015, she became an assistant professor and lecturer at the School of Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In 2015, she was promoted to Assistant Professor and Director of the Vision for Robotics Lab (V4RL) at ETH Zurich, and Honorary Fellow of the University of Edinburgh.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Research conducted and innovative projects<\/h3>\n
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Margarita CHLI and her team have participated in a number of projects and research projects on a national (Swiss) and international scale. For her, these projects are structured around two objectives:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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