Associate Professor of Computer Science, Dartmouth College, 2010-present
Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College, 2004-10
Reviewer
The IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation
The International Journal of Robotics Research
Awards
Dartmouth McLane Family Fellowship, 2010-11
John M. Manley Huntington Award for Newly Tenured Faculty, 2010
Grants
NSF Early Concept Grant for Exploratory Research (EAGER), for computing compact roadmaps for motion planning, 2014-16
NSF Robust Intelligence (RI), for practical techniques for robotic manipulation of string and wire, 2012-16
Neukom Comp-X Grant, for efficient representations for robot motion planning, 2012
NSF Infrastructure Grant, for Digital Imaging Laboratory at Dartmouth, 2007-10
NSF CAREER award 2006-11
Department of Justice Institute for Security Technology Studies (ISTS), for mobility assessment for emergency response robots, 2006-08
Department of Justice Byrne Grant, for automated assistance for disaster response, 2005-07
Institute for Security Technology Studies, 2004
Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship, 2000-04
Selected Publications
With W. Wang and A. Chakrabarti, “A Fast Online Spanner for Roadmap Construction,” International Journal of Robotics Research, 2015
With W. Wang and M. Bell, “Towards Arranging and Tightening Knots and Unknots with Fixtures,” Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics XI, Springer, 2015
With Y. Lyu, “Optimal Trajectories for Planar Rigid Bodies with Switching Costs,” Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics XI, Springer, 2015
With M. Bell, W. Wang, and J. Kunzika, “Knot-Tying with Four-piece Fixtures,” International Journal of Robotics Research, 33(11), 2014
With W. Wang, “Sampling Extremal Trajectories for Planar Rigid Bodies,” Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics X, Springer, 2013
With P. Kavathekar, B. Craig, A. Friedman, and C. Bailey-Kellogg, “Characterizing the Space of Interatomic Distance Distribution Functions Consistent with Solution Scattering Data,” Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, 8(2), 2010
With M. Bell, “Grasping Non-Stretchable Cloth Polygons,” International Journal of Robotics Research, 29(6), 2010
With A. Furtuna, “Generalizing Dubins Curves: Minimum-Time Sequences of Body-Fixed Rotations and Translations in the Plane,” International Journal of Robotics Research, 29(6), 2010
With H. Chitsaz, S. LaValle, and M. Mason, “Minimum Wheel-Rotation Paths for Differential-Drive Mobile Robots,” International Journal of Robotics Research, 28(1) 2009
With M. Mason, “Robotic Origami Folding,” International Journal of Robotics Research, 27(5), 2008
With P. Kavathekar and M. Mason, “The Minimum-Time Trajectories for an Omni-Directional Vehicle,” Algorithmic Foundation of Robotics XII, Springer, 2008
With P. Kavathekar and M. Mason, “Time-Optimal Trajectories for an Omni-Directional Vehicle,” International Journal of Robotics Research, 25(10), 2006
With J. Trinkle, “Computing Wrench Cones for Planar Rigid Body Contact Tasks,” International Journal of Robotics Research, 21(12), 2002
With M. Mason, “Time-Optimal Trajectories for Bounded Velocity Differential Drive vehicles,” International Journal of Robotics Research, 21(3), 2002