Ohio State Alumnus Named National Academy of Engineering Member

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Vijay Kumar, MS ’85 and PhD ’87, mechanical engineering, was among the 69 new members and 11 foreign associates, elected to membership in the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) as announced by NAE President Charles M. Vest earlier today.

Kumar is the UPS Foundation Professor at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University of Pennsylvania. The citation for his election states: For contributions in cooperative robotics, networked vehicles, and unmanned aerial vehicles, and for leadership in robotics research and education.

This past October, Kumar was presented a Distinguished Alumni Award by The Ohio State University College of Engineering. He is well known for his research in the control and coordination of multi-robot formations. Kumar has been a member of the Penn faculty since 1987, where he also directed the GRASP Laboratory, a multidisciplinary robotics and perception laboratory. Dr. Kumar is the recipient of The Ohio State University Presidential Fellowship (’86) and a member of the Mechanical Engineering Advisory Group. He has been honored by the National Science Foundation as a Presidential Young Investigator (’91), is a recipient of the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching at Penn and received the Ferdinand Freudenstein Award for signifi cant contributions to mechanisms and robotics. He earned his bachelor’s in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in 1983.
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