Jos Elfring is an Assistant Professor within the Robotics section at the Mechanical Engineering Department at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). His primary interest are world modeling techniques. In addition, he is specialized in AI, robotics, automated driving, motion prediction, localization, mapping, state estimation, multi sensor fusion.

Jos Elfring received his MSc in Mechanical Engineering from TU/e in 2009 and his PhD in 2014. His internship took place at the University of Canterbury (Christchurch, New Zealand) in 2007. Jos’ MSc research revolves around ‘System Identification and Multivariable Control of a Hydraulically Actuated Pushbelt CVT’ and his PhD thesis dealt with Semantic World Modeling for Autonomous Robots and was part of the European project RoboEarth. He successfully finished the Dutch Institute of Systems and Control course program in 2011, was a member of the Tech United RoboCup@Home team for several years and won the best paper award at the 2013 RoboCup Symposium.

Jos worked at TNO, Smart Robotics, TomTom and VDL during the period 2014-2024, where he had various roles as technical lead, researcher and architect. Since 2017, he combined his work in industry with a part time position as an assistent professor.

In 2024, he moved back to a full time position as assistant professor in the Robotics group of TU/e.