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My research
interests center around theoretic
methods in hybrid systems and
nonlinear control, with a heavy
emphasis on applications to
bipedal robotic walking---both
formally and through experimental
validation.
The theoretic
foundations that I explore extend
to a variety of application
domains encompassing
cyber-physical and autonomous
systems, including:
safety-critical control via
control barrier functions,
automotive applications, real-time
optimization-based control,
powered prostheses and robotic
assistive devices.
I received a BS
in Mechanical Engineering and a BA
in Mathematics from the University
of St. Thomas in 2001. I received
a MA in Mathematics and a PhD in
Electrical Engineering and
Computer Sciences and the
University of California, Berkeley
in 2006 with Shankar Sastry.
I was a Postdoc at Caltech from
2006-2008 with John Doyle. At UC
Berkeley, I was the recipient of
the 2005 Leon O. Chua Award for
achievement in nonlinear science
and the 2006 Bernard Friedman
Memorial Prize in Applied
Mathematics. In 2010, I
received both the NSF CAREER award
for my research on bipedal robotic
walking and its applications to
prosthetic devices. I was
the recipient of the 2015 Donald
P. Eckman Award recognizing an
outstanding young engineer in the
field of automatic control.
News
and Notes:
"Abstractness, sometimes
hurled as a reproach at
mathematics, is its chief glory
and its surest title to
practical usefulness."
-Eric Temple Bell
"Good general theory does
not search for the maximum
generality, but for the right
generality."
-Mac Lane
"The whole concept of a category
is essentially an auxiliary one;
our basic concepts are essentially
those of a functor and of a
natural transformation ."
-Eilenberg and Mac Lane
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