People
People
Ant-Like Microrobots
Faculty
Pamela Abshire is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Institute for Systems Research at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her areas of specialty are in the fields of VLSI circuit design and bioengineering. Dr. Abshire's research focuses on better understanding the tradeoffs between performance and resources in natural and engineered systems.
Sarah Bergbreiter graduated with a B.S.E. in electrical engineering from Princeton University in 1999. After a short period at a small startup company working on home automation technologies, she began graduate school at U.C. Berkeley. In 2004, she received her M.S.E.E. for designing the CotsBots - a networked robotics platform built on top of Berkeley's Mica motes and TinyOS. She has recently completed her Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering by designing and fabricating autonomous jumping microrobots. Her research interests include microrobotics, MEMS, networked multi-robot systems, and sensor networks.
Nuno C. Martins received the MS. degree in electrical engineering from I.S.T., Portugal, in 1997, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, in 2004. He has also concluded a Financial Technology Option program at Sloan School of Management (MIT) in 2004. He is currently Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, where he is also affiliated with the Institute for Systems Research and the Center for Applied Electromagnetics. He received a National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2007, the 2006 American Automatic Control Council O. Hugo Schuck Award and the 2010 Outstanding ISR Faculty award. He is also a member of the editorial board of Systems and Control Letters (Elsevier) and of the IEEE Control Systems Society Conference Editorial Board.
Elisabeth Smela received her BS in physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park. She was a research scientist at Linköping University in Sweden and a senior scientist at Risø National Laboratory in Denmark. She was Vice President of Research and Development at Santa Fe Science and Technology, Inc. She received the NSF Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE, converted from CAREER award, 2003) in 2004, the E. Robert Kent Teaching Award for Junior Faculty from the University of Maryland in 2004, the Outstanding Invention of 2004 Award for cell sensor based pathogen detection from the Office of Technology Commercialization, University of Maryland, the DuPont Young Professor Award in 2003, the Danish Research Council's Talent Project award in 1998 and the NSF Fellow from the Summer Institute in Japan in 1991. Her research is primarily in the field of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), particularly polymer MEMS and bioMEMS. She focuses on the use of organic materials (from polymers to cells) in microsystems to realize microactuators, cell-based sensors, and CMOS/MEMS integrated systems.
Graduate Students
Undergraduates
Alumni
-Deepa Sritharan, PhD-ME
-Aaron Gerratt, PhD-ME
- Michael Kuhlman, MS-ECE
- Tsung-Hsueh Lee, PhD-ECE
- Eduardo Arvelo, PhD-ECE
- Yonatan Gefen, PhD-ECE
- Daniel Mirsky, BS-ECE
-Maxwell Hill, BS-ME
-Nitay Ravin, BS-ECE
- Eric Kim, BS-ECE
- Justin Pearse, MS-ME
- Bavani Balakrisnan, PhD-ME
- Mike Gateau, PhD-ME
-Jessica Rajkowski, MS-ME
-Yijing Meng, BS-ECE
- Michael O'Brien, BS-ECE
- Veronica Ruf, BS-ME
- Andrew Sabelhaus, BS-ECE
- Yuchen Zhou, BS-ECE
- Gary Sullivan, BS-CS
- Chris Perkins, BS-ECE
- Andy Hammond, BS-ECE
- Josh Horn, BS-ECE
- Elisabeth Kenyon, BS-ME
- Andy Turner, BS-ECE
- Lydia Lei, BS-ECE
- Ken Tossell, BS-CS
- Kate Miller, BS-ECE