He is the director of Lofaro Labs Robotics, Lofaro Labs LLC and the Drones and Autonomous Systems Lab @George Mason University (DASL@GMU). An NSF-EAPSI and ONR-SFRP Fellow, he received his doctorate from the ECE Department at Drexel University in 2013. He was the Research Lead of the DARPA Robotic Challenge team DRC-Hubo. His research interests include Humanoid Robotics, Complex Control Systems, and Mobile Manipulating UAVs (MM-UAVs) with most recent ventures relating to Robot Design and Cloud Robotics. Recent achievements include: