I am an Associate Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at Lehigh University, where I head up the VADER Laboratory. My research interests include intelligent vehicle systems, assistive technologies, and multi-robot systems. I teach courses in mobile robotics and real-time image processing, and also serve as the instructor for both the Computer Science and Computer Engineering senior design courses. My research is funded by the National Science Foundation, the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development, and private corporations to include Freedom Sciences, LLC., Lockheed Martin, and Thales Communications, Inc.

News

• I am the Tutorials Chair for ICRA2012
• I am serving as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering
• My 2010 senior project groups Rocked! Chris Amici & Mike McCord won the Outstanding Senior Project Award for CS, Sai Lu Mon Aung & Joe Predham won the Outstanding Senior Project Award for CompE/EE, and Nick Welton & Alex Wendt won the CompE/EE Peers' Choice Award. Congratulations gentlemen!
• My research on smart wheelchair systems was featured by Scientific American.
• I've received an NSF Faculty Early CAREER Development Award to investigate smart wheelchair technologies for navigating urban environments
• My graduate work on Multiple Autonomous Robots (MARS) was included in "100 Ivy-League Learning Tools Anyone Can Access" by Best Colleges Online.

About Me...

I did my PhD in the GRASP Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania.   My advisor was CJ Taylor, and my research focused on localization and target tracking applications for mobile robot teams. Before returning to school for my PhD, I worked as a test engineer for the U.S. Army, where I had the opportunity to work with some wonderful hardware. Now, I spend my time teaching students and robots to act intelligently. One is a significantly more daunting proposition than the other. For fun, I like to work, run, plant trees, and watch the sunset from my rocking chair.