He received a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Vanderbilt University, USA. Before joining SUTD, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Edinburgh, and a visiting researcher at the German Aerospace Center. David is the founder and director of the Dynamics & Control Laboratory at SUTD. With research interest spanning fundamental aspects of robot dynamics, control and design, his work is in the emerging field of compliant robotics where his goal is to achieve the robustness, efficiency, agility and dexterity similar to that of humans. He has received the 2013 IEEE Transactions on Robotics Best Paper Award and was an Editor of IEEE’s International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR 2015)