Jean-Claude Latombe is a Professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University.

Dr. Latombe's research interests are in designing computer algorithms to represent, sense, plan, control, and render motions of physical objects. The underlying issue is to efficiently capture the connectivity of configuration or state spaces that are both high-dimensional and geometrically complex, a problem for which he and his students have developed an efficient approach based on random sampling (probabilistic roadmaps).