Faculty
Check out these Purdue faculty and the exciting work they do in robotics.
Dr. Vaneet Aggarwal
Department: Industrial Engineering (College of Engineering)
Web-page: https://web.ics.purdue.edu/~vaneet/
Research Interests: Machine Learning.
Dr. Daniel G. Aliaga
Department: Computer Science (College of Science)
Web-page: https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/aliaga
Research Interests: 3D Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, Visualization.
Dr. Satya Ambike
Department: Kinesiology (College of Health and Human Sciences)
Web-page: https://www.purdue.edu/hhs/hk/Biomechanics-MotorBehavior/about/dr-satyajit-ambike/
Research Interests: Biomechanics, Motor control, Dynamical systems, Mechanism synthesis, Locomotion, Prehension.
Dr. Ragu Athinarayanan
Department: School of Engineering Technology (Polytechnic Institute)
Web-page: https://polytechnic.purdue.edu/profile/rathinar
Research Interests: Technology Leadership & Innovation.
Dr. Charles Babbs
Department: Biomedical Engineering (College of Engineering)
Web-page: https://engineering.purdue.edu/Engr/People/ptProfile?resource_id=89537
Research Interests: Biological repair of central nervous system damage and overcoming neurologic dysfunction through assistive technology (AT) development and accessible design.
Dr. Bedrich Benes
Department: Computer Science (College of Science)
Web-page: https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/bbenes/
Research Interests: Real-time rendering, Geometric Modeling, High Performance Computer Graphics.
Dr. Smriti Bhatt
Department: School of Computer Information Technology (Polytechnic Institute)
Web-page: https://engineering.purdue.edu/ME/People/ptProfile?resource_id=119137https://polytechnic.purdue.edu/profile/bhatt32
Research Interests: Smart Health, Smart Home, and Wearable IoT, cyber-physical systems.
Dr. Laura Blumenschein
Department: Mechanical Engineering (College of Engineering)
Web-page: https://engineering.purdue.edu/ME/People/ptProfile?resource_id=241064
Research Interests: Growing robots, Soft robotics, Bioinspired systems, Wearable robots, Haptics, Soft matter.
Dr. Luiz Brito
Department: Animal Sciences (College of Agriculture)
Web-page: https://ag.purdue.edu/Pages/Profile.aspx?strAlias=britol
Research Interests: Precision Livestock Farming, Data Integration, High-throughput Phenotyping, Animal Behavior and Welfare, Machine Learning, Quantitative Genomics, Genomic Predictions, Animal Research Data Ecosystems.
Dr. Dennis Buckmaster
Department: Agricultural & Biological Engineering (Agriculture and Engineering)
Web-page: https://engineering.purdue.edu/ABE/people/ptProfile?resource_id=42205
Research Interests: Machine Systems, Agricultural Systems Management.
Dr. David J. Cappelleri
Department: Mechanical Engineering (College of Engineering)
Web-page: http://engineering.purdue.edu/ME/People/ptProfile?id=92669
Research Interests: Multi-scale robotic manipulation and assembly, Mobile micro/nano robotics, Micro-Bio robotics.
Dr. Z. Berkay Celik
Department: Computer Science (College of Science)
Web-page: https://beerkay.github.io/?_ga=2.20765432.179211018.1647907966-1716498798.1634744031
Research Interests: Security for software and systems, IoT security, security and privacy guarantees in commodity computer systems.
Dr. George T.-C. Chiu
Department: Mechanical Engineering (College of Engineering)
Web-page: https://engineering.purdue.edu/ME/People/ptProfile?resource_id=12482
Research Interests: Mechatronics and dynamic systems and control, Digital printing and Imaging systems, Digital fabrications and functional printing, Human motor control, Motion and Vibration perception and control.
Dr. Melba M. Crawford
Department: Civil Engineering (College of Engineering)
Web-page: https://engineering.purdue.edu/Engr/People/ptProfile?resource_id=12521
Research Interests: pattern recognition, Data fusion techniques for Multisensor problems, Multiresolution methods in image analysis.
Dr. Eugenio Culurciello
Department: Biomedical Engineering (College of Engineering)
Web-page: https://engineering.purdue.edu/BME/People/viewPersonById?resource_id=71333
Research Interests: Analog and mixed-mode integrated circuits with applications to biomedical instrumentation, biological sensors and interfaces, implantable sensors, telemetry sensors, biomimetic sensors; Bio-inspired vision sensory systems.
Dr. Daniel DeLaurentis
Department: School of Aeronautics and Astronautics (College of Engineering)
Web-page: https://engineering.purdue.edu/AAE/people/ptProfile?resource_id=1429
Research Interests: Design Methods: Mathematical modeling and object-oriented frameworks for the design of system-of systems, especially those for which air vehicles are a main element; approaches for robust design, including robust control analogies and uncertainty modeling/management in multidisciplinary design
Aerospace Systems and Flight Vehicles:
sizing/synthesis algorithms for design & performance estimation of revolutionary flight vehicles; exploration of Personal Air Vehicle designs and concept of operations; aircraft flight stability and control, especially as an integral part of conceptual design.
Dr. Ed Delp
Department: School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (College of Engineering)
Web-page: https://engineering.purdue.edu/ECE/People/ptProfile?resource_id=2632
Research Interests: Image processing, image and video compression, information security, multimedia systems, medical imaging, computer vision, communication and information theory.
Dr. Xinyan Deng
Department: Mechanical Engineering (College of Engineering)
Web-page: https://engineering.purdue.edu/~xdeng/index.html
Research Interests: Flight Control, Aerodynamics, Insect Robot, Actuators & Sensors, Robotic Fish.
Dr. Xiumin Diao
Department: Engineering Technology (Polytechnic Institute)
Web-page: http://polytechnic.purdue.edu/profile/diaox/
Research Interests: Human-robot interaction, Robotics and automation.
Dr. Brad Duerstock
Department: Biomedical Engineering (College of Engineering)
Web-page: http://engineering.purdue.edu/DuerstockIAS
Research Interests: Biological repair of central nervous system damage and overcoming neurologic dysfunction through assistive technology (AT) development and accessible design.
Dr. Marisa Erasmus
Department: Animal Sciences (College of Agriculture)
Web-page: https://api.ag.purdue.edu/Pages/Profile.aspx?strAlias=merasmus
Research Interests: Precision Livestock Farming, Animal Behavior and Welfare, Machine Learning.
Dr. Miad Faezipour
Department: School of Engineering Technology (Polytechnic Institute)
Web-page:
https://web.ics.purdue.edu/~mfaezipo/
Research Interests: healthcare technology with embedded intelligence, digital/biomedical embedded hardware/software co-designs, biomedical signal/image processing, computer vision, healthcare/biomedical informatics, artificial intelligence
Dr. Dongming Gan
Department: School of Engineering Technology (Polytechnic Institute)
Web-page:
https://polytechnic.purdue.edu/profile/dgan
Research Interests: intelligent reconfigurable robotic systems, compliant robot manipulators, and flexible light-weight wearable devices for assisting humans in manufacturing, health care and domestic human-robot co-existing scenarios with safe physical interactions
Dr. Jose Garcia Bravo
Department: School of Engineering Technology (Polytechnic Institute)
Web-page:
https://polytechnic.purdue.edu/profile/jmgarcia
Research Interests: 3-D Printing soft actuators and integrated componets, Robotics, Tribology
Dr. Mahsa Ghasemi
Department: School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (College of Engineering)
Web-page: https://mahsaghasemi.github.io/
Research Interests: Task-oriented knowledge acquisition and reasoning, online learning and control, human-robot interaction, trustworthy artificial intelligence, and socially and ethically beneficial autonomy.
Dr. Neera Jain
Department: School of Mechanical Engineering (College of Engineering)
Web-page: https://engineering.purdue.edu/ME/People/ptProfile?resource_id=119137
Research Interests: Multimodal Human/Robot Interaction, management of distributed energy systems, controls, thermodynamics.
Dr. Jin Kocsis
Department: School of Computer Information Technology (Polytechnic Institute)
Web-page: https://polytechnic.purdue.edu/profile/kocsis0
Research Interests: resilient and intelligent security and privacy solutions, specifically cooperative and trustworthy deep learning-powered security and privacy solutions, for cyber-physical-social systems.
Dr. C. S. George Lee
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering (College of Engineering)
Web-page: https://engineering.purdue.edu/ECE/People/profile?resource_id=2910
Research Interests: Robotics, neural fuzzy systems, skills learning.
Dr. Daniel Leon-Salas
Department: School of Engineering Technology (Polytechnic Institute)
Web-page: https://tech.purdue.edu/profile/wleonsal
Research Interests: Hybrid energy-harvesting image sensors, OFID.
Dr. Nina Mahmoudian
Department: Mechanical Engineering (College of Engineering)
Web-page: https://engineering.purdue.edu/mahmoudian/
Research Interests: UUVs, robotic sensor networks, with emphasis in field robotics.
Dr. Ramses Martinez
Department: Industrial Engineering and Biomedical Engineering (College of Engineering)
Web-page: https://engineering.purdue.edu/FlexiLab/?_ga=2.56763882.1389675099.1597914213-1684728735.1597914213
Research Interests: Soft Robotics, Implantable Systems, Nanomanufacturing
Dr. Eric Matson
Department: Computer and Information Technology (Polytechnic Institute)
Web-page: https://web.ics.purdue.edu/~ematson/
Research Interests: Multi-robot systems, robotic sensor networks, with emphasis in field and service robotics and emergency response.
Dr. Byung-Cheol Min
Department: Computer and Information Technology (Polytechnic Institute)
Web-page: https://web.ics.purdue.edu/~minb/
Research Interests: Human-robot interaction, multi-robot systems, robotic sensor networks, with emphasis in field and service robotics and assistive technology and robotics.
Dr. Shaoshuai Mou
Department: School of Aeronautics & Astronautics (College of Engineering)
Web-page: https://engineering.purdue.edu/AAE/people/ptProfile?resource_id=124981
Research Interests: Multi-Agent Networks, Autonomy, Cyber-Security, Optimizations, Control, and applications of Al.
Dr. Robert Nawrocki
Department: School of Engineering Technology (Polytechnic Institute)
Web-page: https://polytechnic.purdue.edu/profile/rnawroc
Research Interests: physically flexible organic electronics with the application in biopotential monitoring and soft robotics, as well as neuromorphic systems, smart (meta) materials and neuroscience.
Dr. Brittany Newell
Department: Engineering Technology (Polytechnic Institute)
Web-page: https://polytechnic.purdue.edu/profile/bnewell1
Research Interests: Flexible 3-D Printed sensors and actuators, Robotic water quality monitoring and distributionsystems, Rumen understanding through Millipede- Engineered Navigation and sensing .
Dr. Shimon Y. Nof
Department: Industrial Engineering (College of Engineering)
Web-page: https://engineering.purdue.edu/~nof/
Research Interests: Best matching protocol, Collaborative decision networks, Facility sensor networks.
Dr. Suranjan Panigrahi
Department: Engineering Technology (Polytechnic Institute)
Web-page: https://polytechnic.purdue.edu/profile/spanigr/
Research Interests: Smart sensors/sensing system for automation, quality control, detection and diagnosis application, Intelligent decision support systems using articial intelligent techniques including machine learning, Innovative products/processes for social challenges in low resource setting via interdisciplinary team approach.
Dr. Ahmed Qureshi
Department: Computer Science (College of Science)
Web-page:
https://qureshiahmed.github.io/
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Research Interests: artificial intelligence, machine learning, and control to design and develop intelligent robotic systems.
Dr. Mo Rastgaar
Department: School of Engineering Technology (Polytechnic Institute)
Web-page:
https://polytechnic.purdue.edu/profile/rastgaar
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Research Interests: assistive and rehabilitation robots, systems design, cyber-physical systems, dynamic, and controls.
Dr. Victor Raskin
Department: English Language and Linguistics (College of Liberal Arts)
Web-page: https://cla.purdue.edu/directory/profiles/victor-raskin.html
Research Interests: Linguistic and semantic theory and their applications, Natural language processing (NLP) and its business applications, Ontology, Computational semantics, World and lexical knowledge acquisition, Humor Theory.
Dr. Tahira Reid Smith
Department: School of Mechanical Engineering (College of Engineering)
Web-page: https://engineering.purdue.edu/ME/People/ptProfile?resource_id=74127
Research Interests: Human/Machine Interaction, Design.
Dr. Elisha Sacks
Department: Computer Science (College of Science)
Web-page: https://www.cs.purdue.edu/people/faculty/eps/
Research Interests: Geometric reasoning in science and engineering.
Dr. Dharmendra Saraswat
Department: Agricultural & Biological Engineering (Agriculture and Engineering)
Web-page: https://engineering.purdue.edu/ABE/people/ptProfile?resource_id=123838
Research Interests: Environmental and Natural Resources, Machine Systems, Agricultural Systems Management.
Dr. Yu She
Department: Industrial Engineering (College of Engineering)
Web-page: https://https://engineering.purdue.edu/ME/People/ptProfile?id=58037
Research Interests: Robotics, Mechanisms Design, Tactile perception.
Dr. Dengfeng Sun
Department: School of Aeronautics and Astronautics (College of Engineering)
Web-page:
https://engineering.purdue.edu/AAE/people/ptProfile?resource_id=50922
Research Interests: Modeling, simulation and optimization of large scale networked systems, Control and optimization, Studies for National Airspace Systems, Air traffic control, Intelligent Transportation Systems
Dr. Hong Tan
Department: School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (College of Engineering)
Web-page: https://engineering.purdue.edu/~hongtan/
Research Interests: Haptic human-machine interfaces and haptic perception.
Dr. Mohit Verma
Department: Agricultural & Biological Engineering (Agriculture and Engineering)
Web-page: https://www.vermalab.com/
Research Interests: Biosensors for low-cost and user-friendly diagnostics, human microbiome, nanotechnlogy.
Dr. Richard Voyles
Department: School of Engineering Technology (Polytechnic Institute)
Web-page: https://web.ics.purdue.edu/~rvoyles/
Research Interests: Animal AgRobotics, Safety, Search and Rescue Robotics; Wireless Control Networks; Reconfigurable Computing; 4D Printing, Robotic Systems.
Dr. Juan Wachs
Department: Industrial Engineering (College of Engineering)
Web-page: https://engineering.purdue.edu/IE/people/ptProfile?resource_id=63004 html
Research Interests: Machine and computer vision, Robotics, Tele-operations, Human Computer interaction, Assistive technologies and Health support systems
Dr. Bin Yao
Department: School of Mechanical Engineering
Web-page: http://engineering.purdue.edu/ME/People/ptProfile?resource_id=11271
Research Interests: Adaptive and robust control, Nonlinear control, Precision control of mechanical systems, Vehicle control, Robotics.
Dr. Xue Yexiang
Department: Computer Science (Department of Computer Science)
Web-page: http://www.cs.purdue.edu/people/faculty/yexiang/
Research Interests: Scalable and accurate probabilistic reasoning techniques, statistical modeling of data, and robust decision-making under uncertainty.
Dr. Denny Yu
Department: Industrial Engineering (College of Engineering)
Web-page: https://engineering.purdue.edu/YuGroup
Research Interests: Human factors, Occupational health, Biomechanics, and medical devices with applications in improving the safety of healthcare for both patients and medical professionals.
Dr. Haiyan H. Zhang
Department: School of Engineering Technology (Polytechnic Institute)
Web-page: https://tech.purdue.edu/profile/hhzhang
Research Interests: Modeling and Simplification of Robot Manipulator Dynamics; Digital Hydraulic Valve Design and Analysis; Mechatronics Device Development; Large Flow VFS Development.