Maryland Robotics Center

Robotics faculty directory

This is a browsable listing of robotics faculty. Click on a name at right or use the "more information" link to go directly to a page with more information about them.


	S.K. Gupta, Director Professor Mechanical Engineering and ISR Computer aided design, manufacturing automation, robotics. Manufacturing domains: mechanical assembly, nano manipulation, CNC machining, micro fabrication, injection molding, sheet metal bending, rapid prototyping, and solid freeform fabrication. \| More information \| News stories \|

	Pamela Abshire Associate Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering and ISR Biotechnology; channel capacity and efficiency of blowfly photoreceptors; channel capacity and efficiency of silicon photoreceptors; fundamental limits on switching energy of the CMOS inverter, silicon-on-sapphire (SOS) photodetectors \| More information \| News stories \|

	David L. Akin Associate Professor Aerospace Engineering Space systems and operations; space human factors; telerobotics; space simulation; space applications of artificial intelligence \| More information \| News stories \|

	Yiannis Aloimonos Professor Computer Science and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) Active vision: the study of the mechanisms responsible for recovering three-dimensional information from image sequences obtained by an active observer. Application of descriptions of visual space and space-time to analyzing and synthesizing visual data: eye and camera design, video editing and manipulation, graphics and virtualized reality, visualization, sensor networks, robots/navigation and the study of biological vision. \| More information \| News stories \|

	Bilal Ayyub Professor; Director, Center for Technology and Systems Management Civil and Environmental Engineering uncertainty modeling and analysis, systems modeling, decision analysis, homeland security, various defense and infrastructure systems, safety systems, and mathematical modeling using statistics, probability theory, fuzzy sets, and the theory of evidence \| More information \| News stories \|

	John S. Baras Lockheed Martin Chair in Systems Engineering (Professor); Director, Maryland Hybrid Networks Center; Founding Director, ISR Electrical and Computer Engineering and ISR Scaleable multicast security; integrated management of hybrid communication networks; modeling and performance evaluation of large broadband hybrid networks; fast internet over heterogeneous (wireless-wireline) networks; manufacturing process selection for electromechanical products; intelligent control; wavelets; robust speaker identification; low complexity, high fidelity, low rate speech coding; image processing and understanding; learning clustering algorithms and classification; distributed control (or decision) systems; stochastic dynamic model building; stochastic control and scheduling; real-time sequential detection and estimation; computer-aided control systems design; queuing systems; quantum communications; nonlinear systems; radar systems modeling and performance evaluation and distributed parameter systems \| More information \| News stories \|

	Sarah Bergbreiter Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering and ISR Microrobotics, networked multi-robot systems and sensor networks More information \| News stories \|

	Gilmer Blankenship Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Stochastic and nonlinear control, Adaptive control, AI in engineering design More information \| News stories \|

	Hugh Bruck Associate Professor Mechanical Engineering Designing and fabricating functionally graded materials (FGMs) for energetic materials, porous materials, smart structures and MEMS devices More information \| News stories \|

	Craig Carignan Lecturer Aerospace Engineering Robot dynamics and control, motion-based simulation, haptic interfaces, man-machine systems More information \| News stories \|

	Nikhil Chopra Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering and ISR Fundamental understanding of synchronization and control of networked dynamical systems interacting over unreliable communication networks, such as sensor networks, unmanned air vehicles and robot networks. \| More information \| News stories \|

	Avis H. Cohen Professor Biology and ISR Understanding neural and genomic systems through using computational and integrational methods. Neurology of the lamprey; immune proteins of the sea urchin. \| More information \| News stories \|

	Jaydev Desai Associate Professor Mechanical Engineering Medical robotics, haptic interfaces for robot-assisted surgery, surgical simulation, model-based teleoperation, and cellular surgery \| More information \| News stories \|

	Don DeVoe Professor Mechanical Engineering MEMS and microfluidic systems \| More information \| News stories \|

	Ramani Duraiswami Associate Professor Computer Science and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) Audio & Computational Acoustics; scientific computing; computer vision \| More information \| News stories \|

	Cornelia Fermüller Associate Research Scientist Computer Vision Laboratory Center for Automation Research Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) Perception for robotics \| More information \| News stories \|

	Rodolphe Gentili Research Assistant Professor Department of Kinesiology Neuromorphic Engineering and Sensory-Motor Integration, Network Models and Pattern Recognition \| More information \| News stories \|
	Timothy Horiuchi Associate Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering and ISR Bat echolocation; computational neuroscience; learning systems; neuromorphic VLSI design; constrained optimization circuits; mobile robotics; neural recording and spike-sorting techniques and tools \| More information \| News stories \|

	James E. Hubbard, Jr. Samuel P. Langley Distinguished Professor Aerospace Engineering Aerospace applications of smart materials and adaptive structures; aero-acoustics for noise control; spatially distributed transducers and the extension of modern time domain control methodologies into the spatial domain for the real-time control of distributed systems \| More information \| News stories \|

	Sean Humbert Assistant Professor Aerospace Engineering The intersection of dynamics and control theory with the rapidly emerging area of bio-inspired sensing and locomotion \| More information \| News stories \|

	Anya Jones Assistant Professor Aerospace Engineering Experimental fluid dynamics, including unsteady low Reynolds number aerodynamics, vortex dynamics, and flow control with applications to MAVs, flapping wings, and wind/water turbines \| More information \| News stories \|
	P.S. Krishnaprasad Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering and ISR Modeling, design, motion planning and control arising in mobile robotics; geometric methods in nonlinear dynamics; time-frequency analysis of acoustic signals and systems; intelligent control architectures, in part inspired by biological paradigms; technology and theory of smart materials for use in actuation and sensing; problems of high resolution optical wave front control; problems of integration of actuators and sensors in control networks; new types of particle filters for approximate solutions to nonlinear filtering problems; sensing and control in nature; control of collectives (communicating, networked, control systems) \| More information \| News stories \|

	Raj Madhavan Assistant Research Scientist Institute for Systems Research Performance evaluation issues and standards-defining activities in mobile robotics navigation and mapping \| More information \| News stories \|

	Nuno Martins Assistant Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering and ISR Control theory, estimation, information theory \| More information \| News stories \|

	Dana S. Nau Professor Computer Science and ISR Artificial intelligence; computer integrated design and manufacturing; planning; search \| More information \| News stories \|

	Derek Paley Assistant Professor Aerospace Engineering Research in nonlinear dynamics and controls, cooperative control of autonomous vehicles, autonomous underwater vehicles, and modeling of animal aggregrations \| More information \| News stories \|

	James Reggia Associate Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering and ISR Biotechnology; channel capacity and efficiency of blowfly photoreceptors; channel capacity and efficiency of silicon photoreceptors; fundamental limits on switching energy of the CMOS inverter, silicon-on-sapphire (SOS) photodetectors \| More information \| News stories \|
	Ben Shapiro Associate Professor Fischell Department of Bioengineering and ISR Mechatronic, biological and clinical micro system control; micro flow feedback control manipulation; control of electrowetting flows; directing therapeutics with precise magnetic field control; 2DPCR for spatially mapping genetic in tissue samples \| More information \| News stories \|

	Miroslaw J. Skibniewski A.J. Clark Chair Professor of Construction Engineering & Project Management Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Affiliate Professor of Decision, Operations and Information Technologies E-commerce technology applications in construction, Web-based project management systems, Construction automation and robotics, Construction equipment management, Decision support tools for project management and construction, Advanced technology transfer optimization, International construction management, Environmental management in construction, Legal aspects in engineering and project management \| More information \| News stories \|

	Elisabeth Smela Associate Professor Mechanical Engineering Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), particularly polymer MEMS and bioMEMS. The use of organic materials (from polymers to cells) in microsystems to realize microactuators, cell-based sensors, and CMOS/MEMS integrated systems. \| More information \| News stories \|

	Petr Svec Associate Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering and ISR Developing autonomy for unmanned surface vehicles by using virtual environments, Machine learning techniques for automatic generation of navigation strategies for fully autonomous unmanned surface vehicles, Evolutionary techniques including genetic programming, genetic algorithms, and co-evolution \| More information \| News stories \|
	Norman Wereley Professor, Techno-Sciences Inc. Faculty Fellow Director, Composites Research Laboratory (CORE) Aerospace Engineering Active, semi-active and passive vibration control, as well as adaptive crashworthiness systems, for helicopters and automobiles. Magnetorheological energy absorbers and fluids. Smart pneumatic systems. \| More information \| News stories \|

	Miao Yu Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering Optical sensors; sensor mechanics and material behavior at multiple spatial scales; micro- and nano-scale sensor systems; sensors for civil, mechanical, electrical, biochemical, biomechanics, biology, medical, and environmental applications, and sensor networks; adaptive optics, wavefront sensing and control, imaging through turbulence; smart materials and structures; and theoretical and experimental mechanics \| More information \| News stories \|