caption birth_place nationality field residence image article_title name alma_mater
oussama khatib aleppo , syria u.s. , france robotics u.s. thumb oussama khatib
 oussama khatib stanford university sup ' aero , toulouse , france
oussama khatib

oussama khatib is a roboticist and a professor of computer science at stanford university , and a fellow of the ieee .
he is credited with seminal work in areas ranging from robot motion planning and control , human-friendly robot design , to haptic interaction and human motion synthesis .
his work 's emphasis has been to develop theories , algorithms , and technologies , that control robot systems by using models of their physical dynamics .
these dynamic models are used to derive optimal controllers for complex robots that interact with the environment in real-time .
