David Lu is the founder of Metro Robots, a robotics software consulting firm, focusing on improving robot navigation in real environments around people. He is a leading member of the ROS open-source community as a maintainer and contributor to many of the core ROS packages and four-time presenter and two-time program chair for ROSCon conference. He has a PhD in Computer Science from Washington University in St. Louis and previously worked at PickNik Robotics, Locus Robotics, Bossa Nova Robotics, Willow Garage, Walt Disney Imagineering R&D, Google and IBM.