Biography
John J. Leonard is Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering in
the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering and a member of the MIT
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). His
research addresses the problems of navigation and mapping for
autonomous mobile robots. He holds the degrees of B.S.E.E. in
Electrical Engineering and Science from the University of Pennsylvania
(1987) and D.Phil. in Engineering Science from the University of
Oxford (formally 1994). Prof. Leonard joined the MIT faculty in 1996,
after five years as a Post-Doctoral Fellow and Research Scientist in
the MIT Sea Grant Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) Laboratory.He
has served an associate editor of the IEEE Journal of Oceanic
Engineering and of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation.
He is the recipient of an NSF Career Award (1998), an E.T.S. Walton
Visitor Award from Science Foundation Ireland (2004), and the King-Sun
Fu Memorial Best Transactions on Robotics Paper Award (2006).
Currently, he serves as Area Head for Ocean Science and Engineering in
the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering and as Co-Director of the
Ford-MIT Alliance.
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Awards- ICRA: Best Paper Finalist (2012)
- ICRA: Automation Best Paper Award Finalist (2011)
- IEEE Transactions on Robotics: Best Paper Award (2007)
- ICRA: Best Student Paper Finalist (2005)
- Science Foundation Ireland: E.T.S. Walton Visitor Award (2004)
- ACM Sensys: Best Paper Award (2004)
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