Peter Corke was born in Melbourne, Australia on August 24th, 1959. He attended the University of Melbourne, where he earned his bachelor’s and master’s in Electrical Engineering in 1980 and 1986, respectively. Following graduation, he joined the Australian government research agency, CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization). While there he pursued and completed his Ph.D. at Melbourne. He continued at CSIRO where he remained until 2008, after which he wrote a book on visual control networks and then joined the Faculty at Queensland University of Technology as Professor of Robotics and Control, a position he holds today. Corke has worked himself in several aspects of robotics, researching mining and field robotics, control theory, computer vision systems, and wireless sensor networks. He served editor-in-chief of the IEEE Robotics & Automation Society (RAS) Magazine from 2010-2013.
