University of Pennsylvania, PA

United States

Research Areas

Robots

About the Interview

DANIEL KODITSCHEK: An Interview Conducted by Peter Asaro with Selma Šabanović, IEEE History Center, 23 May 2011

Interview #729 for Indiana University and the IEEE History Center, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.

Biography

Daniel Koditschek, IEEE Life Fellow received the B.S. degree in engineering and applied science and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering, in 1981 and 1983, respectively, all from Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.,He joined the faculty at Yale in 1983 and moved to the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1992. In 2005, he was appointed Chair of Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA, in which he currently serves as the Alfred Fitler Moore Professor, with secondary appointments in the Departments of Computer and Information Science as well as Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics. His research interests include robotics and the application of dynamical systems theory to intelligent machines.,Dr. Koditschek was the recipient of the 2016 IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Pioneer Award and the 2017 Penn Heilmeier Award for Excellence in Research.