Professor Ruzena Bajcsy studied at the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, where she obtained a degree in engineering as well as a PhD degree in electrical engineering. Later, she earned another PhD degree in computer science at Stanford University in California, USA, where she worked with John McCarthy, the founder of artificial intelligence. Currently she is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

Professor Ruzena Bajcsy has received a number of prestigious awards, such as ACM AAAI Allen Newell Award for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, IEEE Robotics and Automation Award for her contribution in the field of robotics and automation and many more.

During the course of her career, Professor Ruzena Bajcsy became the founder of many famous research laboratories, such as, for example, the GRASP laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania, CITRIS Institute and HART (Human-Assistive Robotic Technologies) laboratory.