He received his B.S.E. in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1999, his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 2004, and was a Postdoctoral Associate in Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT before joining the faculty in EECS in 2005. He has received an NSF CAREER award, the MIT Jerome Saltzer award for undergraduate teaching, the DARPA Young Faculty Award, and was named a Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellow. The goal of his research is to build robots which exploit their natural dynamics to achieve extraordinary agility and efficiency. Follow