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Daniela L. Rus

32-374 Stata, 32 Vassar St
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
MIT
Cambridge, MA 02139
(617) 258 7567
rus@csail.mit.edu


startsection section1@-3.5ex plus -1ex minus -.2ex2.3ex plus .2exCurrent Position

Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT, 2004--.

startsection section1@-3.5ex plus -1ex minus -.2ex2.3ex plus .2exPrior Positions

Professor, Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth, 2003--. Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Cognitive Neuroscience, Dartmouth, 2000-2003. Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Cognitive Neuroscience, 1994--2000.

startsection section1@-3.5ex plus -1ex minus -.2ex2.3ex plus .2exPrincipal Fields of Interest

Robotics, Mobile Computing, Information Access.

startsection section1@-3.5ex plus -1ex minus -.2ex2.3ex plus .2exEducation

Ph.D.
in Computer Science, Cornell University, August 1992. Department of Computer Science. Thesis title: Fine Motion Planning for Dexterous Manipulation. Research supervisor: Professor John Hopcroft. Minor: Mathematics.

M.S.
in Computer Science, Cornell University, 1990.

B.S.
in Computer Science and Mathematics with Honors, The University of Iowa, 1985. Minor: Astronomy.

startsection section1@-3.5ex plus -1ex minus -.2ex2.3ex plus .2exTeaching Activities

startsectionsubsection2@-3.25ex plus -1ex minus -.2ex1.5ex plus .2exUndergraduate Courses

Abstract Data Types and C++, CS 19, Fall 1995, Fall 1996, Fall 1997. Honors course on C++, abstract data types, and analysis of algorithms. Dartmouth.

Introduction to Robotics, CS 88, Fall 1998. An introduction to robot building (electronics and mechanics) and to robot algorithms. Students build and program their own robots. This offering has been the basis for a new course: CS 46 ``Principles of Robot Design and Programming''. This course has been approved by Dartmouth in Spring 1999 and is currently the only course offered in the computer science department that satisfies the lab requirement for undergraduate students. Dartmouth.

Robotics: from science to implementation, CS 88, Spring 1996. Advanced robotics course in robot building (electronics and mechanics), robot programming, and an overview of recent robotics results. Dartmouth.

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, CS 44, Winter 1995, Winter 1996, Winter 1997, Winter 1999, Winter 2001, Winter 2003. Dartmouth.

Principles of Robot Design and Programming, Spring 2001, Spring 2003. Dartmouth.

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Spring 2004, , Fall 2004 MIT.

Robotics Grand Challenge, Spring 2005 MIT.

startsectionsubsection2@-3.25ex plus -1ex minus -.2ex1.5ex plus .2exGraduate Courses

Introduction to Robotics, CS 188, Fall 1998.

Robotics: from science to implementation, CS 184 Spring 1996.

Robotics, CS 188, Fall 1994.

Artificial Intelligence CS 104, graduate course, Dartmouth College, Spring 1995, Spring 1997.

Topics in Information Capture and Access, Fall 1993 - Spring 1994, Cornell University. Full teaching responsibilities.

startsection section1@-3.5ex plus -1ex minus -.2ex2.3ex plus .2exPrior Research Activities

Research Associate, Cornell University, Fall 1992 - Summer 1994 .

startsection section1@-3.5ex plus -1ex minus -.2ex2.3ex plus .2exProfessional Activities

Director, the Rus Robotics laboratory at MIT (2004--)

Director, the Dartmouth Robotics Laboratory (1994--)

Co-director, the Dartmouth Transportable Agents Laboratory (1995--)

Co-founder, the Dartmouth Center for Mobile Computing (1997--)

International Committee, International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER) (1997--)

International Committee, International Conference on Field and Service Robotics (FSR) (1998-2000)

Editorial Board, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (2003--)

Editorial Board, and Founders Board, IEEE Pervasive Computing (2001--)

Program Co-Chair, DARPA IPTO Conference 2005

Program Committee, ICRA 2005

Program Committee, IPSN 2005

Senior Program Committee, Robotics Systems and Science 2005

Program Committee, IROS 2004

Best Paper Award Committee, ICRA 2003

Program Committee, the 2003 International Conference on Field and Service Robotics

Program Committee, MOBICOM 2002

Vice-chair for mobile agents, WWW10

Senior program committee, Autonomous Agents 2001

Program Committee, the 2001 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2001)

Program Committee, the 2001 International Symposium on Intelligent Robot Systems (IROS 2001)

DOE panelist, May 2001

IEEE Pervasive Computing Magazine Editorial Board, since 2001

Director, the 2001 fMRI NeuroInformatics Workshop, Dartmouth, July 2001

General Co-Chair, 2000 International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER 2000)

General Co-Chair, 2000 Workshop on Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR 2000)

Program Committee, the 2000 International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Program Committee, the 2000 International Conference on Autonomous Agents

Program Committee, Conference on Distributed Autonomous Robot Systems 2000 (DARS 2000)

Co-chair, Symposium on Cooperative Robotics, the 2000 International Conference on Robotics and Automation

General Chair, the 1999 NSF Workshop on Self-reconfiguring Robots

Program Committee, (area chair for robotics), 1999 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI99)

Reviewer, 1999 SIGIR

Treasurer, 1999 International Conference on Autonomous Agents

Program Committee, Workshop on Mobile Agents in the Context of Competition and Cooperation, 1999

Chair, Dartmouth Workshop on Mobile Agents, 1999

NSF panelist, April 1998

Program Committee, 1998 IEEE Workshop on Enabling Technologies on Collaboration and Mobility

Program Committee, 1998 International Conference on Autonomous Agents (AA98)

Program Committee, 1998 Workshop on Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR98)

Judging Committee, the 1998 Webby Awards

Program Committee, 1997 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM97)

Program Committee, (area chair for robotics), 1997 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI97)

Reviewer, ICRA, 1997, 1998, 1999

Nominations and Awards Committee, the 1997 YWCA Tribute to Women Competition

Co-chair, The IEEE/Dartmouth Workshop on Transportable Agents, 1996, 1997

Program Committee, AAAI, 1996, 1997, 1998

Program Committee, 1996 IEEE/RSJ Multisensor Fusion and Integration Conference

Program Committee, EdMedia 1996.

NSF Panelist, 1994.

Program Committee, 1995 CIKM Workshop on Intelligent Agents

Program Committee, DAGS 1995.

Organizing Committee for the CIKM 1994 Workshop on Intelligent Hypertext

Organizing and Program Committee for the CIKM 1994 Workshop on Intelligent Agents

Reviewer/referee for International Journal of Robotics Research, Algorithmica, IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, Discrete and Computational Geometry, Information Processing Letters, the IEEE Journal of Robotics and Automation, the IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, the Journal of Robotic Systems, ACM Transactions on Information Systems, International Journal on Human Computer Studies, and the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Multi-agent Systems, Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering Journal, The Computer Journal, Robotics and Autonomous Systems.

Reviewer/referee for PODC (2001).

Reviewer/referee for AFOSR (1997).

Reviewer/referee for the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1998).

Reviewer/referee for the International Conference on Information Knowledge Management (1993).

Reviewer/referee for the Principles of Document Processing workshop (1994).

Reviewer/referee for Advances in Digital Libraries (1995).

Reviewer/referee for the Workshop on Algorithms in Robotics (1996).

Participant, NSF workshop on mathematical directions in Robotics, May 2000.

Participant, Darpa workshop on distributed robotics, February 2001.

Panelist for Networked Robotics, NSF/NASA workshop on the state of the art in Robotics in the US

startsection section1@-3.5ex plus -1ex minus -.2ex2.3ex plus .2exUniversity Activities

Member, MIT EECS Faculty Search Committee 2004-2005

Member, the Committee on Adjudication, 2000-2003.

Member, the Steering Committee for Globalization in the Academia, 2000-2001.

Faculty Recruiting Committee, Cognitive Neuroscience, 1999-2000.

New Hampshire Space Grant Consortium Steering Committee, 1999-.

Steering Committee, The Department of Cognitive Studies, Dartmouth, 1996-.

Chair, the 2001 fMRI NeuroInformatics Workshop, Dartmouth, July 2001.

Chair, PhD admissions Committee, Department of Computer Science, 2000-2001, 2002-2003.

Speaker, Horizons on Location, San Francisco February 2001.

Faculty recruiting committee, Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth, 1995-1996, 1999-2000.

Colloquium Chair, Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth, 1995-1996, 1998-1999, 2001, 2003.

Graduate Admissions, Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth, 1995-99.

Equipment Committee, Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth, 1995-99.

Freshman Advisor, Dartmouth, 1995-99.

Advisor to the Undergraduate Team for the AAAI Mobile Robot Competition, 1995-.

startsection section1@-3.5ex plus -1ex minus -.2ex2.3ex plus .2exPublications

startsectionsubsection2@-3.25ex plus -1ex minus -.2ex1.5ex plus .2exJournal Publications

  1. ``Robot and Sensor Networks for First Responders'' (with V. Kumar and S. Singh), IEEE Pervasive Computing, vol. 3, no. 4, pp 24-34, December 2004.

  2. ``The Star Clustering Algorithm for Static and Dynamic Information Organization'' (with J. Aslam and E. Pelekhov), Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications, vol. 8, no. 1, pp 95-124, 2004.

  3. ``Persistent Queries over Dynamic Text'' (with J. Aslam and E. Pelekhov), International Journal of Electronic Business, accepted for publication (September 2004).

  4. ``The Kerf Toolkit for Intrusion Analysis'', (with J. Aslam, S. Bratus, D. Kotz, R. Peterson, and B. Tofel), IEEE Security and Privacy, 2(6) pp 42-52, 2004.

  5. ``Generic Decentralized control for locomotion with self-reconfiguring robots'' (with Z. Butler, K. Kotay, and K. Tomita), in International Journal of Robotics Research, vol. 23, no. 9, pp 919-938, September 2004.

  6. ``Power delivery and locomotion of untethered micro-actuators'' (with B. Donald, . Levey, C. McGray, and M. Sinclair), Journal of Micromechanical Systems, 10(6) pp 947-959.

  7. ``Event-based control for mobile sensor networks'' (with Z. Butler), in IEEE Pervasive Computing 2(4), pp 10-18, 2003.

  8. ``Self-Reconfiguring Robots in the USA'' (with R. Fitch), in Japanese Robotics Society Journal, JRSJ Vol. 21, No. 8, pp.1-7, 2003.

  9. ``Distributed planning and control for modular robots with unit-compressible modules'' (with Z. Butler), in International Journal of Robotics Research, Sage publications, vol. 22, no. 9, pp 699-715, 2003.

  10. ``Reactive Behavior in Self-reconfiguring Sensor Network'', (with Q. Li, R. Peterson, and M.deRosa), in ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review, vol. 7, no. 1, pp 56-68, January 2003.

  11. ``Three Power-aware Routing Algorithms for Sensor Networks'' (with J. Aslam and Q. Li). In Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing. vol. 3, pp 187-208, John Wiley and Sons, 2003.

  12. ``D'Agents: Applications and Performance of a Mobile-Agent System'' (with R. S. Gray and G. Cybenko and D. Kotz and R. Peterson). In Software Practice and Experience 32(6):543-573, May, 2002.

  13. ``Sending Messages in Disconnected Ad-hoc Networks'' (with Qun Li), Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 63(1), pages 75-86, Janurary 2003.

  14. ``Distributed control for unit-compressible robots: goal recognition, locomotion, and splitting'' (with Z. Butler and R. Fitch), in IEEE/ASME Trans. on Mechatronics, vol. 7, no. 4, pp 418-430, 2002.

  15. ``Self-reconfiguring Robots'' (with Z. Butler, K. Kotay, and M. Vona), Communications of the ACM vol. 45, no 3, pp 39-45, 2002.

  16. ``Computational Markets to regulate mobile agent systems'' (with J. Bredin, R. Maheswaran, C. Imer, T. Basar, and D. Kotz), Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems, vol. 6, pp 235-263, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003.

  17. ``The fMRIDC: Challenges and Rewards of large scale databasing of Neuroimaging Studies'' (with J. vanHorn, J. Grethe, P. Kostelec, J. Woodward, J. Aslam, D. Rockmore, and M. Gazzaniga), Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B no. 356, pp 1323-1339, 2001.

  18. ``Crystalline Robots: Self-reconfiguration with Unit-compressible Modules'' (with M. Vona), Autonomous Robots, in Vol. 10, no. 1, pp 107-124, 2001.

  19. ``The Inchworm Robot: A Multi-functional System'' (with K. Kotay), Autonomous Robots, in Vol. 8, no. 2, pp 53-69 2000.

  20. ``Locomotion Versatility through Self-reconfiguration'' (with K. Kotay), Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 26, pp 217-232, 1999.

  21. ``In-hand dexterous manipulation of piecewise-smooth objects'', International Journal of Robotics Research, 18(4), 355-381, 1999.

  22. ``Self-Reconfiguring Robots'', in IEEE Intelligent Systems, 13(4), 2-5, July/August 1998.

  23. ``Structured Queries in Electronic Corpora'' (with J. Allan), Journal for Multimedia Tools and Applications on Electronic Publishing, no. 6, pp 153-169, 1998.

  24. ``Minimalism + Distribution = Supermodularity'', (with B. Donald and J. Jennings), the Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, 9(1997) 293-321, 1997.

  25. ``Coordinated reorientation of polygonal parts'', Algorithmica, 19(1/2) 129-147, 1997.

  26. ``Information invariants for cooperating autonomous mobile robots'' (with B. Donald and J. Jennings), International Journal of Robotics Research, 16(5) 673-702, 1997.

  27. ``Agent Tcl: Targeting the needs of mobile computers'' (with D. Kotz, R. Gray, S. Nog, S. Chawala, and G. Cybenko), IEEE Journal of Internet Computing, 4(1) 58-68, July-August 1997.

  28. ``Transportable Information Agents'' (with D. Kotz and R. Gray), Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, vol 9. pp 215-238, 1997.

  29. ``Customizing Information Access'' (with D. Subramanian), ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 15(1) 67-101, 1997.

  30. ``Geometric Algorithms and Experiments for Automated Document Structuring'' (with K. Summers) Journal of Mathematical and Computer Modeling, 26(1) 55-83, Elsevier, 1997.

  31. ``Customizing multimedia information access'' (with D. Subramanian), ACM Computing Surveys 27(4) 627-629, 1995.

  32. ``A Tool for the Analysis of Manipulation'' (with D. Ranjan), Information Processing Letters 45:117-121, 1993.

startsectionsubsection2@-3.25ex plus -1ex minus -.2ex1.5ex plus .2exBooks

  1. ``The Systems Methodology for Software: Vol. I'' (with T. Rus), World Scientific Publishing Co., New Jersey 1993. Second Edition, 1995.

  2. ``The System Methodology for Software: Vol. II, Execution support environment'' (with T. Rus), World Scientific Publishing Co., New Jersey, 1994.

startsectionsubsection2@-3.25ex plus -1ex minus -.2ex1.5ex plus .2exBook chapters

  1. ``Modular Self-reconfiguring Robots and Their Applications to Locomotion'' (with K. Kotay and M. Vona), in The Encyclopedia of Physical Sciences (2002).

  2. ``Using Modular Self-reconfiguring Robots for Locomotion'' (with K. Kotay and M. Vona), in Experimental Robotics VII (eds. D. Rus and S. Singh), Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences 271, Springer-Verlag 2001.

  3. ``Automatic Information Organization'' (with J. Aslam and K. Pelekhov), in Proceedings of the 2000 SSGRR (book with CD ROM).

  4. ``Distributed Manipulation with Ropes'' (with B. Donald and L. Gariepy), in Distributed Manipulation, eds. K. Bohringer and H. Choset, Springer Verlag 1999.

  5. ``Mobile agents: motivations, state of the art, and frontiers'' (with G. Cybenko, R. Gray, and D. Kotz), in eds. J. Bradshaw, Handbook of Agent Technologies, MIT Press, 1999 (to appear).

  6. ``Experiments with Desktop Mobile Manipulators'' (with M. Mason, D. Pai, J. Howell, L. Taylor, and M. Erdmann), in Experimental Robotics VI, Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, LNCIS 250, eds. P. Corke, Springer-Verlag, 1999.

  7. ``Experiments in Constrained Prehensile Manipulation: distributed manipulation with ropes'' (with B. Donald and L. Gariepy), in Experimental Robotics VI, Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, LNCIS 250, eds. P. Corke, Springer-Verlag, 1999.

  8. ``Mobile agents in distributed information retrieval'' (with B. Brewington, K. Moizumi, G. Cybenko, R. Gray, D. Kotz), in Intelligent Information Agents, ed. M. Klush, Springer Verlag, 1999 pp 355-396.

  9. ``Agent Tcl: Targeting the needs of mobile computers'' (with D. Kotz, R. Gray, S. Nog, S. Chawala, and G. Cybenko), in Mobility: processes, computers, and agents, eds. D. Milojicic, F. Douglas, and R. Wheeler, pp 513-124, Addison Wesley 1999.

  10. ``D'Agents: Security in a multiple-Language Mobile-Agent System'', (with R. Gray, G. Cybenko, and D. Kotz), in Mobile Agents and Security, eds. G. Vigna, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1419, Springer-Verlag 1999.

  11. ``Generating, visualizing, and evaluating high-quality clusters for information organization'' (with J. Aslam and K. Pelekhov), in Proceedings of Principles of Digital Document Processing eds. E. Munson, C. Nicholas, D. Wood, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1481, Springer-Verlag 1998.

  12. ``The Self-Reconfiguring Robotic Molecule: Design and Control Algorithms'', (with K. Kotay, M. Vona, and C. McGray), in The 1998 Workshop on Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics, eds. P. Agarwal, L. Kavraki, M. Mason, pp 375-386, A. K. Peters, Boston, MA, 1998.

  13. ``Versatility for Unknown Worlds: Mobile Sensors and Self-reconfiguring Robots'', in Field and Service Robotics, eds. A. Zelinsky, Springer Verlag 1998.

  14. ``Transportable Information Agents'' (with R. Gray and D. Kotz), in Readings in Agents, eds. M. Huhns and M. Singh, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, pp 283-291, 1997.

  15. ``Information Retrieval, Information Structure, and Information Agents'' (with D. Subramanian), in Advances in Intelligent Hypertext, eds. C. Nicholas and J. Mayfield, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1326, pp 145-182, Springer-Verlag, 1997.

  16. ``Analysis of Algorithms'' (with J. Hopcroft), in the Encyclopedia of Computer Science, eds. Anthony Ralston, Edwin D. Reilly, David Hemmendinger, International Thomson Computer Press, 4th edition, 1999. (In press.)

  17. ``Agent Tcl'' (with B. Gray, G. Cybenko, and D. Kotz), in Itinerant Agents: Explanations and Examples with CDROM, eds. William Cockayne and Michael Zypa, Manning Publishing, 1997. (In press).

  18. ``Information Invariants for distributed manipulation: experiments in minimalism'', (with K. Bohringer, R. Brown, B. Donald, and J. Jennings), in Experimental Robotics IV, Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences 223, eds. O. Khatib and K. Salisbury, pp. 11-25, Springer-Verlag, 1997.

  19. ``Self-reconfigurable Robots for Navigation and Manipulation'', (with K. Kotay), in Experimental Robotics V, Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences 223, eds. A. Casals and A. de Almeida, pp. 619-632, Springer-Verlag, 1998.

  20. ``Information Invariants for Distributed Manipulation'' (with B. Donald and J. Jennings) in The Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics, pp. 431-458, A. K. Peters, Boston, MA ed.K. Goldberg, R. Wilson and J.-C. Latombe, 1995.

  21. ``Using whitespace for automated document structuring'' (with K. Summers), in Advances in Digital Libraries, eds. N. Adam, B. Bhargava, and Y. Yesha, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 916, pp 129-162, Springer Verlag, 1995.

  22. ``A Framework for Dexterous Manipulation Using Lie Algebras'', Algebraic Methodology and Software Technology, Workshop in Computing Series, pp. 443-455, Springer-Verlag 1992.

startsectionsubsection2@-3.25ex plus -1ex minus -.2ex1.5ex plus .2exEditorial Activities

  1. Part VII Editor, The Handbook of Robotics, Springer-Verlag.

  2. Guest Editor (with G. Chirikjian), Autonomous Robots, special issue on Self-reconfiguring Robots, vol 10, no. 1, 2001.

  3. Editor (with S. Singh), Experimental Robotics VII, Lecture Notes in Computer and Engineering Sciences 271 Springer Verlag, 2001.

  4. Editor (with B. Donald and K. Lynch), Algorithmic and Computational Robotics: New Directions, A. K. Peters, Boston, MA, 2001.

  5. Guest Editor (with B. Donald and K. Lynch), special issue of International Journal on Robotics Research dedicated to The 2000 Workshop on Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics, vol. 22, no. 1, 2003.

  6. Guest Editor (with S. Singh), special issue of International Journal on Robotics Research dedicated to The 2000 International Symposium on Experimental Robotics.

  7. Editor and coordinator, Computer Science Department Research Profile.

startsectionsubsection2@-3.25ex plus -1ex minus -.2ex1.5ex plus .2exRefereed Publications in Robotics and Geometric Algorithms Conferences

  1. ``Reconfiguration Planning Among Obstacles for Heterogeneous Self-reconfiguring Robots'' (with R. Fitch and Z. Butler), to appear in ICRA 2005 (April 2005).

  2. ``Vornoi toolpath for mechanical etch: simple and intuitive algorithms with the 3D GPU'' (with M. Vona), to appear in ICRA 2005 (April 2005).

  3. ``Autonomous Modular Optical Underwater Robot (AMOUR): design, prototype, and feasibility study (with I. Vasilescu, P. Varshavskaya, and K. Kotay) to appear in ICRA 2005 (April 2005).

  4. ``Efficient Locomotion Gait for a self-reconfiguring robot'' (with K. Kotay) to appear in ICRA 2005 (April 2005).

  5. ``Distributed Reinforcement Learning for Controlling Locomotion for Self-reconfiguring Robots'' (with L. Kaelbling and P. Varshavskaya), IROS 2005.

  6. ``Generic Distributed Assembly and Repair Algorithms for Self-Reconfiguring Robots'' (with K. Kotay), IROS 2005.

  7. ``Dynamic Virtual Fences for Controlling Cows'' (with Z. Butler, P. Corke, and R. Peterson), ISER 2004.

  8. ``Robot Localization and Navigation with Sensor Networks'' (with P. Corke and R. Peterson), DARS 2004.

  9. ``Deployment and Connectivity Repair of a Sensor Network with a Flying Robot'' (with P. Corke, S. Hrabar, R. Peterson, D. Rus, S. Saripalli, and G. Sukhatme) ISER 2004.

  10. ``Virtual fences for controlling cows'' (with Z. Butler, P. Corke, and R. Peterson), ICRA 2004.

  11. ``Autonomous Deployment and Repair of a Sensor Network using an Unamnned Aerial Vehicle'' (with P. Corke, S. Hrabar, R. Peterson, D. Rus, S. Saripalli, and G. Sukhatme) ICRA 2004.

  12. ``Virtual fences for controlling cows'' (with Z. Butler, P. Corke, and R. Peterson), ICRA 2004.

  13. ``Autonomous Deployment and Repair of a Sensor Network using an Unamnned Aerial Vehicle'' (with P. Corke, S. Hrabar, R. Peterson, D. Rus, S. Saripalli, and G. Sukhatme) ICRA 2004.

  14. ``Interacting with a sensor network'' (with R. Peterson), ICRA 2004.

  15. ``Controlling mobile sensors for monitoring events with coverage constraints'' (with Z. Butler), ICRA 2004.

  16. ``Self-reconfiguration Algorithms for Heterogeneous Systems'' (with Z. Butler and R. Fitch), in IROS 2003 (October 2003).

  17. ``Networked Robots: Flying robot navigation with a sensor network'' (with P. Corke and R. Peterson), in ISRR 2003 (October 2003).

  18. ``Untethered micro-actuators for autonomous micro-robot locomotion: design, fabrication, control, and performance'' (with B. Donald, C. Levey, C. McGray, and M. Sinclair), submitted to the 2003 International Symposium on Experimental Robotics.

  19. ``Distributed Search and Rescue with Robot and Sensor Teams'' (with Aveek Das, George Kantor, Vijay Kumar, Guilherme Pereira, Ron Peterson, Sanjiv Singh, and John Spletzer) in Field and Service Robotics 2003.

  20. ``Power delivery and locomotion of untethered micro-actuators'' (with B. Donald, C. Levey, C. McGray, and M. Sinclair) in IEEE MEMS (January 2003).

  21. ``Distributed motion planning for 3D unit-compressible robots with a PacMan-styl algorithm'' (with Z. Butler) in WAFR 2002 (December 2002).

  22. ``Interacting with a sensor network'' (with R. Peterson) in ACRA 2002 (November 2002).

  23. ``Experiments in distributed locomotion with modular unit-compressible robots'' (with Z. Butler and R. Fitch), in IROS 2002 (September 2002).

  24. ``Experiments in self-replication with modular unit-compressible robots'' (with Z. Butler and R. Fitch) in ISER 2002 (July 2002).

  25. ``Distributed replication algorithms for self-reconfiguring modular robots'' (with Z. Butler and S. Murata), in Proceedings of Distributed Autonomous Robots 2002 (DARS 2002) (June 2002).

  26. ``Generic Decentralized Control for a Class of Self-Reconfigurable Robots'' (with Z. Butler, K. Kotay, and K. Tomita), in Proceedings of ICRA 2002 (May 2002).

  27. ``Distributed Goal Recognition Algorithms for Modular Robots'' (with Z. Butler, R. Fitch, and Y. Wang), in Proceedings of ICRA 2002 (May 2002).

  28. ``Distributed motion planning for self-reconfigurable robots'' (with Z. Butler and S. Byrnes), in Proceedings of IROS 2001 (October 2001).

  29. ``3D Rectilinear Motion Planning with Minimum Bend Paths'' (with R. Fitch and Z. Butler), in Proceedings of IROS 2001 (October 2001).

  30. ``Cellular Automata for Decentralized Control of Self-Reconfigurable Robots'' (with Z. Butler, K. Kotay, K. Tomita), in proceedings of the workshop on modular robots, ICRA 2001 (May 2001).

  31. ``Using Modular Self-reconfiguring Robots for Locomotion' (with K. Kotay and M. Vona), in Proceedings of the 2000 International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (December 2000)

  32. ``A General Basis for Self-reconfiguring robots and its instantiation using Crystal Modules'' (with M. Vona), in Proceedings of the 2000 International Symposium on Intelligent Robot Systems (IROS 2000) (October 2000)

  33. ``Algorithms for Self-reconfiguring Molecule Motion Planning'' (with K. Kotay), in Proceedings of the 2000 International Symposium on Intelligent Robot Systems (IROS 2000) (October 2000)

  34. ``A Scalable Parallel Algorithm for Configuration Planning for Self-reconfiguring Robots '' (with Keith Kotay), in Proceedings of the conference on Sensor Fusion and Decentralized Control in Robotic Systems III (SPIE RB06) (April 2000)

  35. ``A Basis for Self-Repair Robots Using Self-Reconfiguring Crystal Modules'' (with R. Fitch and M. Vona), In Proceedings of The 6Th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (July 2000)

  36. ``A physical implementation of the Self-reconfiguring Crystalline Robot'' (with M. Vona), in Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2000) (September 2000).

  37. ``Distributed Manipulation of Multiple Objects using Ropes'' (with B. Donald and L. Gariepy), in Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2000) (September 2000).

  38. ``Recent Results on Distributed Object Recognition'' (with Z. Kone and R. Weiss), in SPIE 1999, Sensor Fusion and Decentralized Control in Robotic Systems II (September 1999).

  39. ``Self-reconfiguration planning with Compressible Unit Modules'' (with M. Vona), the 1999 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (May 1999).

  40. ``A Mobile Manipulator'' (with M. Mason, D. Pai, L. Taylor, and M. Erdmann), the 1999 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (May 1999).

  41. ``Experiments with Desktop Mobile Manipulators'' (with M. Mason, D. Pai, J. Howell, L. Taylor, and M. Erdmann), the 1999 Internaitonal Symposium on Experimental Robotics (March 1999).

  42. ``Experiments in Constrained Prehensile Manipulation: distributed manipulation with ropes'' (with B. Donald and L. Gariepy), the 1999 International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (March 1999).

  43. ``Self-reconfiguring Molecules as 3D Metamorphic Robots'' (with C. McGray), the 1998 International Symposium on Intelligent Robot Systems (October 1998).

  44. ``Motion Synthesis for the Self-reconfiguring Molecule'' (with K. Kotay), the 1998 International Symposium on Intelligent Robot Systems (October 1998).

  45. ``The Self-Reconfigurable Robotic Molecule'', (with K. Kotay, M. Vona, and C. McGray), the 1998 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (May 1998).

  46. ``Task-reconfigurable Robots: Navigators and Manipulators'' (with K. Kotay), in Proceedings of the 1997 International Symposium on Intelligent Robot Systems (September 1997).

  47. ``Task-reconfigurable robots'', (with K. Kotay), in Proceedings of the 1997 International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (June 1997).

  48. ``On-line Algorithms for Distributed Manipulation'' (invited), Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computational Neuroscience, (March 1997).

  49. ``Guiding distributed manipulation with mobile sensors'' (with K. Kotay, A. Kabir, and M. Soutter), in Proceedings of the 1996 International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems, (December 1996).

  50. ``Navigating 3d Steel Web Structures with an Inchworm Robot'' (with K. Kotay), in Proceedings of the 1996 Conference on Intelligent Robot Systems, (November 1996).

  51. ``Moving furniture with teams of autonomous robots'' (with B. Donald and J. Jennings), in Proceedings of the 1995 Conference on Intelligent Robot Systems, (August 1995).

  52. ``Information Invariants for distributed manipulation: experiments in minimalism'', (with K. Bohringer, R. Brown, B. Donald, and J. Jennings), in Proceedings of the 1995 International Symposium on Experimental Robotics, (July 1995).

  53. ``Analyzing teams of cooperating mobile robots'' (with B. Donald and J. Jennings), in Proceedings of the 1994 International Conference on Robotics and Automation, (May 1994).

  54. ``Information Invariants for Distributed Manipulation'' (with B. Donald and J. Jennings) in Proceedings of the Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics, (February 1994).

  55. ``Information Invariants for Cooperating Autonomous Mobile Robots'' (with B. Donald and J. Jennings), in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Robotics Research, (October 1993).

  56. ``Active Model Acquisition for Near-Sensorless Manipulation with Mobile Robots'' (with J. Jennings), in Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Robotics and Manufacturing, (September 1993).

  57. ``Experimental Information Invariants for Coordinated Manipulation'' (with B. Donald and J.Jennings), in Proceedings of the Workshop on Dynamically Interacting Robots, The International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, (August 1993).

  58. ``Coordinated Manipulation of Polygonal Objects'', in Proceedings of the 1993 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, (July 1993).

  59. ``Towards Task-Directed Coordinated Manipulation'' (with A. Back), in Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ 1993 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, (July 1993).

  60. ``A Simulation System for Manipulation'', in Proceedings of The Annual European Computer Conference, (May 1993).

  61. ``Dexterous Rotations of Polyhedra'', Proceedings of the 1992 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Nice, France, (May 1992).

  62. ``A Framework for Dexterous Manipulation Using Lie Algebras'', Proceedings of the 1991 International Conference on Algebraic Methodology and Software Technology, (May 1991).

  63. ``Dexterous Rotations of Polygons'', in Proceedings of the Second Canadian Computational Geometry Conference, Ottawa, Canada, (August 1990).

startsectionsubsection2@-3.25ex plus -1ex minus -.2ex1.5ex plus .2exRefereed Publications in Information Access and Mobile Computing Conferences

  1. ``Robust Distributed Network Localization with Noisy Range Measurements'' (with D. Moore, J. Leonard, and S. Teller), in ACM SenSys 2004 (November 2004) (Best Paper Award).

  2. ``Tracking a moving object with a binary sensor network'' (with J. Aslam, Z. Butler, F. Constantinescu, V. Crespi), in ACM SenSys 2003 (November 2003).

  3. ``Global Clock Synchronization for Sensor Networks'' (with Q. Li), in Infocom 2004. (March 2004).

  4. ``Distributed algorithms for guiding navigation across sensor networks'' (with Q. Li and M. deRosa), Mobicom 2003.

  5. ``Distributed Energy-Conserving Routing Protocols for Sensor Networks'' (with Q. Li and J. Aslam), in the IEEE Hawaii International Conference on System Science, 2002.

  6. ``Message Relay in Disconnected Ad-hoc Networks'' (with Q. Li), The 2002 IEEE MASCOTS Workshop on Mobility and Wireless Access, 2002.

  7. ``Scheduling Multi-task Agents'' (with R. Xie and C. Stein), in Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE Conference on Mobile Agents (December 2001).

  8. ``Online Power-aware Routing in Ad-hoc Wireless Networks'', with Qun Li and Jay Aslam, in Proceedings of the International conference on Mobile Computing MOBICOM 2001 (July 2001)

  9. ``Using Mobile Agents for Analyzing Intrusion in Computer Networks'' (with J. Aslam, M. Cremonini, and D. Kotz), in Proceedings of the Seventh ECOOP Workshop on Mobile Object Systems (June 2001)

  10. ``Hierarchical Power-aware Routing in Sensor Networks'' (with Q. Li and J. Aslam), DIMACS Workshop on Pervasive Networking (May 2001)

  11. ``Scheduling Multi-task Multi-agent Systems'' (with R. Xie and C. Stein), in Proceedings of the 2001 Conference on Autonomous Agents (May 2001).

  12. ``Applications of clustering to filtering and persistent queries'' (with J. Aslam and K. Pelekhov), in Proceedings of CIKM 2000 (November 2000).

  13. ``Sending messages in mobile ad-hoc disconneted networks'' (with Qun Li), in Proceedings of the International conference on Mobile Computing MOBICOM 2000 (August 2000).

  14. ``Trading risk in mobile-agent computational markets'' (with J. Bredin and D. Kotz), in Proceedings of the 2000 Conference on computational economics (July 2000).

  15. ``Information organization algorithms'' (with J. Aslam and K. Pelekhov), in Proceedings of the SSGRR Conference'' (July 2000).

  16. ``A game-theoretic formulation of multi-agent resource allocation'' (with J. Bredin, R. Maheswaran, C. Imer, T. Basar, and D. Kotz), in Proceedings the 2000 International Conference on Autonomous Agents (AA 2000) (June 2000).

  17. ``Scalable Information Organization'' (with J. Aslam and F. Reiss), in Proceedings of RIAO 2000 (Content-based information access) (April 2000).

  18. ``The Self-organized File Cabinet'' (with D. Lawrie), in Proceedings of the 1999 International Conference on Information Knowledge Management (CIKM 99), November 1999.

  19. ``Economic Markets as a Means of Open Mobile-Agent Systems'' (with J. Bredin and D. Kotz), in Proceedings of the Workshop of Mobile Agents in the Context of Competition and Cooperation, the Third International Conference on Autonomous Agents, May 1999.

  20. ``A practical clustering algorithm for static and dynamic information organization'' (with J. Aslam and K. Pelekhov), in the 1999 Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA99), Baltimore, MD (January 1999).

  21. ``Static and Dynamic Information Organization with Star Clusters'' (with J. Aslam and K. Pelekhov), In Proceedings of the 1998 Conference on Intelligent Knowledge Management, Washington, DC (November 1998).

  22. ``Market-based Resource Control for Mobile Agents'' (with J. Bredin and D. Kotz), in Proceedings of the 1998 ACM International Conference on Autonomous Agents (May 1998).

  23. ``The Self-Organizing Desk'' (with P. deSantis), in Proceedings of the 1997 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Nagoya, Japan, (August 1997).

  24. ``Using High-quality Clusters for Summarizing and Visualizing Large Document Collections'' (with J. Aslam and K. Pelekhov), in the 1997 SIGIR Workshop on Information Summarization and Visualization, (August 1997).

  25. ``Mobile Agents: a New Direction for Distributed Computing'', (with R. Gray, D. Kotz, S. Nog, and G. Cybenko), In Proceedings of the Second Aizu International Symposium on Parallel Algorithms/Architectures Synthesis, Fukushima, Japan, (March 1997).

  26. ``Transportable Information Agents'' (with R. Gray and D. Kotz), in Proceedings of the 1997 International Conference on Autonomous Agents, (February 1997).

  27. ``Autonomous and Adaptive Agents that Gather Information'' (with R. Gray and D. Kotz), in Proceedings of the AAAI96 Workshop on Intelligent Adaptive Agents, (August 1996).

  28. ``Transportable Agents support Distributed Worldwide Applications'' (with D. Kotz and R. Gray), in SIGOPS'96, (September 1996).

  29. ``Does navigation require more than one compass'' (with J. Allan), in Proceedings of 1995 AAAI Fall Symposium of AI Applications in Knowledge Navigation and Retrieval, (November 1995). Also in the Proceedings of the 1996 Pacific-Rim Conference on Artificial Intelligence, (August 1996).

  30. ``Structural queries in electronic corpora'' (with J. Allan), in Proceedings of DAGS95: Electronic Publishing and the Information Superhighway, (May 1995).

  31. ``Using whitespace for automated document structuring'' (with K. Summers), in Proceedings of the 1994 International Workshop on Principles of Document Processing, (April 1994).

  32. ``Modular architectures for information agents'' (with D. Subramanian), in Proceedings of the AAAI Symposium on Intelligent Software Agents, (March 1994).

  33. ``Multi-media RISSC Informatics: Retrieving Information with Simple Structural Components'' (with D. Subramanian), in Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Knowledge Management, (November 1993).

  34. ``Information Agents for Building Hyperlinks'' (with J. Allan, J. Davis, D. Krafft, and D. Subramanian), in Proceedings of the CIKM Workshop on Intelligent Hypertext, (November 1993).

startsectionsubsection2@-3.25ex plus -1ex minus -.2ex1.5ex plus .2exPapers Submitted (under review) in Geometric Algorithms and Robotics

  1. ``Communication-assisted Localization and Navigation for Networked Robots'' (with P. Corke and R. Peterson), submitted to IJRR (February 2004)

startsectionsubsection2@-3.25ex plus -1ex minus -.2ex1.5ex plus .2exPapers Submitted (under review) in Information Access and Mobile Computing

  1. ``Navigation Protocols in Sensor Networks'' (with Q. Li), submitted to ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (August 2003).

  2. ``Global Clock Synchronization in Sensor Networks'' (with Q. Li), submitted to the Journal of Distributed Algorithms (August 2003).

  3. ``Information Diffusion in Naturally Mobile Sensor Networks'' (with Q. Li), submitted to INFOCOM 2005 (July 2004).

  4. ``Sensor Nets with Guaranteed k-Connectivity'' (with J. Bredin, E. Demain, and M.Hajiaghayi), submitted to INFOCOM 2005 (July 2004).

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startsectionsubsection2@-3.25ex plus -1ex minus -.2ex1.5ex plus .2exOther Papers

  1. ``Mobile Information Agents for Processing under Information Overload: a Position Statement'', in Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC'99) Phoenix, Arizona, (October 1999).

  2. ``Distributed Manipulation with Ropes'' (with B. Donald and L. Gariepy), in Proceedings of the ICRA/IEEE Workshop on Distributed Manipulation. Detroit, MI, May 1999.

  3. ``Utility Driven Mobile-Agent Scheduling '' (with J. Bredin and D. Kotz), Technical report PCS-TR98-331, Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth, 1998.

  4. ``Computing Dense Clusters On-line for Information Organization'' (with Javed Aslam and Katya Pelekhov), Technical Report PCS-TR97-324, Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College, 1997.

  5. ``Generating, visualizing, and evaluating high-accuracy clusters for information organization'', Technical Report PCS-TR97-319, Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth, 1997.

  6. ``Mobile Agents for Mobile Computers'' (with R. Gray, D. Kotz, S. Nog, and G. Cybenko), Technical Report PCS-TR96-285, Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College, 1996.

  7. ``Designing and Constructing an Inchworm Climbing Robot'' (with K. Kotay), in Proceedings of the 1996 US-Japan Graduate Student Forum, (November 1996).

  8. ``Cost-effective, Capable, and Configurable Multiple Robots'', (with B. Donald and J. Jennings), report to the DARPA task-force on multiple robots, (July 1996).

  9. ``Using White Space for Automated Document Structuring'' (with K. Summers), Cornell Computer Science Technical Report nr. CS:TR94-1452, 1994.

  10. ``Cooperating Autonomous Robots: Theory and Experiments'' (with B. Donald and J. Jennings), in Proceedings of the NSF Grantees Conference, (January 1994)

  11. ``Analyzing Team of Cooperating Mobile Robots'', (with B. Donald and J. Jennings), Cornell Mathematical Sciences Institute, Technical Report No. 93-85, 1993

  12. ``Information Invariants for Cooperating Autonomous Mobile Robots'' (with B. Donald and J. Jennings), Cornell Computer Science Department, Technical Report No. 93-1389, 1993

  13. ``Fine Motion Planning for Dexterous Manipulation'', Cornell Computer Science Department, Technical Report No. 92-1323, 1992

  14. ``On Dexterous Rotations of Polygons'', Cornell Computer Science Department, Technical Report No. 91-1258, 1991

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startsection section1@-3.5ex plus -1ex minus -.2ex2.3ex plus .2exGrants

startsectionsubsection2@-3.25ex plus -1ex minus -.2ex1.5ex plus .2exAwarded

  1. ``ITR: Networks of Robots and Sensors for First Responders'' PI (with Co-PIs V. Kumar and S. Singh), $2,019,759, NSF award IIS-0426838, 2004-2008.

  2. ``Distributed Control and Learning in Networked Robot Systems'' PI (with Co-PI L. Kaelbling''), $886,668, Boeing, 2004-2008.

  3. ``Mobile Sensors Lab'', PI, $30,000, Intel equipment grant, 2004.

  4. ``Integrated Sensing: Reactive Sensor Networks'', PI, $250,000, NSF award 0225446 2002-2005.

  5. ``Postdoctoral Research in Self-reconfiguring robots'', PI, $88,000, NSF award EIA-0202789, 2002-2004.

  6. ``Mission-based planning for self-reconfiguring robots'', PI, $75,000, 2001-2002, Sandia National Labs.

  7. ``D'Agents: A Secure Mobile Code System for Communications Applications'', PI, $320,165, 2001-2004, ONR award N00014-01-1-0675 .

  8. ``Agent-Based Systems Engineering'', DARPA TASK program award F30602-00-2-0585, (Co-PI), with George Cybenko (PI), $1,862,419 for 2000-2004.

  9. ``Self-reconfiguring Robots with Unit-compressible Modules'', PI, $248,879, 2000-2003, NSF award IIS 9912193.

  10. ``Wireless Support Services for Honda Cars'', PI (with Co-PIs G. Cybenko, R. Gray, and D. Kotz), $30,000, 1999-2000, Research Initiation Grant, Honda Corporation.

  11. ``Postdoctoral Research in Self-reconfiguring robots'', PI, $88,000, NSF award EIA-9901589, 1999-2001.

  12. ``New Hampshire Space Grant Consortium'', Co-PI (PI William Lotko) $750,000, 1999-2004, NASA.

  13. Workshop on Self-reconfiguring Robots, PI, NSF award IIS-9873671, $7,500, 1998-1999.

  14. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship 1998-2002.

  15. ``The National FMRI Data Center'', senior associate, (with PI Michael Gazzaniga and Co-PIs Jay Aslam and Dan Rockmore) $4,767,364, 1999-2004, NSF, 2000-2005.

  16. ``Resource control in large scale mobile agent systems'', Co-PI (with PI D. Kotz and Co-PIs G. Cybenko and R. Gray), DARPA CoAbs program, $2,199,800, 1998-2001, award F30602-98-2-0107.

  17. ``Research Instrumentation for Distributed Reconfigurable Robot Systems'', PI (with Co-PI B. Donald), $120,000, NSF award IIS-98-18299, 1999-2001.

  18. ``Instrumentation for Wireless Agent Networks and Sensor Webs'' Co-Pi (with G. Cybenko (PI), R.S. Gray, D.F. Kotz, C.M. Okino, and L.F. Wilson) $425,538, Airforce Office of Scientific Research, 2000-2002.

  19. ``Self-Reconfigurable Robots'', PI, NSF award IRI-9714332, $50,000, 1997-1998.

  20. ``Transportable Agents and Wireless Networks'', Co-Pi, (PI: George Cybenko), $5,000,000, 1997-2001, the DoD (ONR/AFoSR/ARO) MURI program, award F49620-97-1-0382.

  21. ``Mobile Information Agents'' PI (with co-PI David Kotz), Rome Labs contract F30602-98-C-0006, $119,654, 1998-1999.

  22. ``Text Organization Systems'', PI, Air Force Intelligence Agency, $23,000, 1997.

  23. ``Distributed Manipulation: Algorithms and Systems'', PI, NSF CAREER award IRI-9624286, $200,000, 1996-2001. With $27,676 NSF-REU supplement (IIS-9942730).

  24. ``Autonomous Information Agents: Intelligent, Extensible, and Adaptable Tactical Picture Agents'', PI (with Co-PIs David Kotz and George Cybenko), $400,000, ONR grant N00014-95-1-1204, 1995-1998. With a FY 1998-99 extension of $195,000.

  25. ``The Dartmouth Workshop on Transportable Agents'', PI, $4,000, 1996, (ONR).

  26. ``Development of an Undergraduate Curriculum with Pioneer Robots'', $3,090, equipment grant, RWI Inc. and Active Media Inc.

  27. ``Cooperative manipulation with mobile robots'', Burke Award ($15,000), Dartmouth College, 1994-1997.

  28. ``Travel Fund for Robotics/Agents Undergraduates'', donation from Carey Heckman, $2,000 (1996); $2,000 (1999).

<305>> startsectionsubsection2@-3.25ex plus -1ex minus -.2ex1.5ex plus .2exPending

  1. ``Mobile Sensor Networks'', $300,000, submitted to the NSF (2004-2007).

startsectionsubsection2@-3.25ex plus -1ex minus -.2ex1.5ex plus .2exAwarded to My Students

  1. ``DarRobot Soccer 1998'', $5,600, Dickey Foundation, awarded to the Dartmouth Robot Soccer Team, 1998.

  2. ``NASA Graduate Fellowship'', awarded to my PhD student Keith Kotay, Fall 1998 and Winter 1999.

  3. ``CRA undergraduate research'' awarded to my undergraduate research assistant and advisee Chrissy Alvarado

  4. ``NSF Summer Graduate Program in Japan'', awarded to my PhD student Keith Kotay, 1997, (NSF).

  5. ``NSF Graduate fellowships'', awarded to my undergraduate research assistants and advisees Chrissy Alvarado, Michael Ross, and Marty Vona.

startsection section1@-3.5ex plus -1ex minus -.2ex2.3ex plus .2exStudents

PhD thesis advisor

Carrick Dietweiler (PhD expected in 2009); thesis topic: mobile networks

MS thesis advisor, Zie Kone; thesis title: ``Robot Calibration for Distributed Object Recognition and Manipulation'' (MS granted in 2000).

PhD thesis committee member

MS thesis committee member, Jonathan Briggs, Rohit Sharma, Yunxin Wu.

MIT UROPs supervised: Jeff Hoff, Alex Hornstein, Kyle Gilpin

Honors thesis supervisor: Daniel Karnowski, Mark Giles, Josh Mills, Dawn Lawrie (now at Umass), Chrissy Alvarado (now at MIT), Michael Ross (now at MIT), Marsette Vona (winner of the CRA undergraduate research award for 1998/99; now at MIT; currently on leave at JPL), Artyom Lifshits, Marisa Kolodny (architecture at U Penn in 2000), Sean Byrnes (now at Cornell), Jay Artz, David Marmaros.

Presidential scholar supervisor, David Zipkin, Peter deSantis, Alik Widge, Dan Scholnick, David Marmaros

Undergraduate research supervisor: Sean Byrnes (now at Cornell) Fred Reiss (now at U.C. Berkeley, NSF fellowship), Marty Vona (now at MIT, NSF fellowship), Christine Alvarado (now at MIT, NSF fellowship), Michael Ross (now at MIT, NSF fellowship), Michael Taylor (now at MIT), Ken Yasuhara (now at U. Washington), David Gondek(now at Brown), Dawn Lawrie (PhD from Umass, assistant prof at Loyola U. Baltimore MD), Michael Shin (now at JHU), Miranda Barrows (now at Umass), Alik Widge (now in MD/PhD program at Pitt and CMU), Marisa Kolodny (architecture at MIT? starting in 2003), Michael Brewer (now at MIT in math), Greg Friedland (now at UCSF in biology) Peter deSantis, Scott Silver, Ahsan Kabir, Joe Edelman, Jason Kochel, Robert Leathern, Mathew Saldo, Morgan Soutter, David Hoffer, Vishesh Khemani, Damon Smith, Cem Paya, Hans Kieserman, Bill Bleier, Tarim Wasim, Michael Carr, Tom Millet, Josh Mills, Jun Shen, David Zipkin, Mintcho Petkov, Michael Pryor, Erik White, Jeffrey Zimpleman, Matt Carter, Andrew Ferrone, Jeffrey Steeves, David Black-Schaffer, Anne Loomis, Sarah Honorowski, David Marmaros, Murphy Stein, Jayson Farrell, Frederick Strathmeyer, Michael deRosa, Tom Temple.

Advisor for two Dartmouth teams that built robots for the AAAI96 mobile robot competition.

Advisor for one Dartmouth team that built robots for the AAAI97 mobile robot competition.

Advisor to the RoboCup Dartmouth team that participated in the simulator competition of RoboCup 1998.

startsection section1@-3.5ex plus -1ex minus -.2ex2.3ex plus .2exPostdoctoral Supervision

Keith Kotay, 2004-2005, PhD from Dartmouth

Sergey Bratus, 2002-2003, PhD from Northeastern U.

Zack Butler, 2000-2003, PhD from CMU (currently assistant professor at RIT)

Marco Cremonini, 2000-2001, PhD from U. Milano

Felipe Perrone, 2002, PhD from Dartmouth

startsection section1@-3.5ex plus -1ex minus -.2ex2.3ex plus .2exLaboratories

Director, The Rus Laboratory at MIT. This laboratory houses robotics projects in self-organizing robots, networked robots, sensor networks, and mobile computing.

Director and founder, The Dartmouth Robotics Laboratory. This laboratory houses several robotics projects, including: distributed robot manipulation, navigation in three dimensions, self-reconfiguring robots, and desk-top robotics.

The laboratory is equipped with two customized RWI B14 robots, two RWI Pioneer robots, two inch-worm robots designed and constructed in-house, one desk-top robot designed and built in-house, and 25 self-reconfiguring robotic modules. The lab has computers. and hardware benches for robot maintenance and construction, including an FDM 2000 rapid prototyper.

Co-director and co-founder, The Mobile Agents Laboratory. This laboratory houses a project for building intelligent mobile agents. An agent is a program that can act autonomously on behalf of a user, to assist the user in a specific task. A transportable agent is a named program that can migrate from machine to machine in a heterogeneous network. The program chooses when and where to migrate in order to accomplish its task. It can suspend its execution at an arbitrary point, transport to another machine and resume execution on the new machine. Mobile agents are especially suitable for computation and communication in ad-hoc wireless networks.

This laboratory is equipped with a cluster of PCs and laptops.

startsection section1@-3.5ex plus -1ex minus -.2ex2.3ex plus .2exAwards

Best Paper Award, Sensys 2004.

MacArthur Fellow, class of 2002.

Friedman Family Fellowship, 2002-2003.

Gordon Russell Fellowship, 2000-2001.

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow, 1998-2002.

NSF CAREER Award, 1996-2000.

Honda Initiation Award, 1999-2000.

Phi Beta Kappa.

Who's Who Among America's Teachers, 1998.

Research Advisor to Marty Vona, winner of the 1998 Computing Research Association (CRA) undergraduate research award.

Second Place in the vaccum cleaning task, AAAI Mobile Robot Competition, 1997.

Presidential Lecture: The Challenge and Promise of Robotics, Dartmouth College, February 12, 2003.

Top Gun Distinguished Lecture, the University of Virginia, November 1998.

Qualcomm Distinguished Lecture, UCSD February 1999.

Distinguished Lecture speaker, USC CRES April 2003.

Invited Speaker, IJCAI 2003 August 2003.

IEEE Distinguished speaker, 2004-2005.

Distinguished speaker, Department of Computer Science, UCLA.

startsection section1@-3.5ex plus -1ex minus -.2ex2.3ex plus .2exReferences

Available on request.

startsection section1@-3.5ex plus -1ex minus -.2ex2.3ex plus .2exPersonal

Citizenship: USA


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