Welcome new Robotics faculty
With the new Robotics Department and undergraduate robotics program launched, we have brought on additional faculty who exemplify our values. These new members will help us meet our goals of training the next generation of roboticists and advancing robotics research in order to positively impact the quality of people’s lives.
We are proud to welcome the following to the University of Michigan:
Jamie Berger
Lecturer, started Fall 2022
Interests:
Teaching and learning for computing and engineering disciplines.
Mark Draelos
Assistant Professor in Robotics and Ophthalmology, starting Winter 2023
Interests:
Medical robotics, intrasurgical navigation, biomedical imaging, data visualization, medical device development, and real-time algorithms.
Greg Formosa
Lecturer, starting Winter 2023
Interests:
Mechanical design engineering, especially for the design, fabrication, and control of robotic medical devices; wheeled robot dynamics, modeling, and estimation; STEM education and design engineering pedagogy.
Xiaonan (Sean) Huang
Assistant Professor, starting Winter 2023
Interests:
Design, control, and modeling of autonomous multi-terrain soft robots and tensegrity robots, integration of novel soft multifunctional materials into soft machines, and development of novel soft actuators, sensors, and wearable devices.
Christoforos Mavrogiannis
Assistant Professor, starting Fall 2023
Interests:
Human-robot interaction, shared autonomy, multiagent and multirobot systems, navigation in dynamic environments, decentralized control, behavior prediction, robotic manipulation