Dave Ferguson is a Research Scientist at Intel Research Pittsburgh, working on planning and coordination for single agents and multi-agent teams. He is currently co-PI of the Personal Robotics project, in which an anthropomorphic robotic arm and mobile robot base coordinate to accomplish useful manipulation tasks in populated indoor environments. He was also the planning lead for Carnegie Mellon's Tartan Racing team, winners of the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge autonomous vehicle race, and the initial software lead for Carnegie Mellon's Mine Mapping Project, in which an autonomous robotic vehicle successfully mapped over 300 meters of an abandoned coal mine. In 2007, one of his planning algorithms was incorporated into the onboard navigation framework of the Mars Exploration Rovers. Dave obtained his Ph.D. from the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University in 2006 and his BSc from Otago University in 2001.