Daniela Rus

Daniela Rus
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  • Position: Professor, Associate Director CSAIL
  • Office: 32-374
  • Phone: +1 (617) 258-7567
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  • Areas of Study: Robotics
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  • Last Update: October 22, 2008
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Biography

Daniela Rus is a professor in the EECS department at MIT.

She co-directs the CSAIL Center for Robotics.

Previously, she was an assistant professor, associate professor, and professor in the Computer Science Department at Dartmouth. She holds a PhD is Computer Science from Cornell University. Her research interests include robotics, mobile computing, sensor networks, and information organization. She is a Class of 2002 MacArthur Fellow.

Publications

  • Distributed Motion Planning for 3D MOdular Robots with Unit-Compressible Modules (with Z. Butler), to appear in IJRR 2003 Also in proceedings of WAFR 2003.
  • Networked Robots: Flying Robot Navigation with a Sensor Net (with P. Corke and R. Peterson), in Proceedings of the 2003 International Symposium on Robotics Research.
  • Power Delivery and Locomotion of Untethered Micro-Actuators (with B. Donald, C. Levey, C. McGray, and M. Sinclair), to appear in IEEE JMEMS 2003. Also in Porceedings of ISRR 2003.
  • Distributed Algorithms for Guiding Navigation Across a Sensor Net (with Q. Li and M. deRosa), in Proceedings of Mobicom 2003.
  • Reconfiguration Planning for Heterogeneous Self-reconfiguring Robots (with R. Fitch and Z. Butler), in Proceedings of IROS 2003.

Awards

  • Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence: Fellow
  • ACM SenSys 2004: Best paper
  • MacArthur Foundation: MacArthur Fellows Program
  • NSF: Career Award
  • Sloan Foundation: Research Fellowship

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