Robot Navigation in the Wild

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Gregory S. Chirikjian received undergraduate degrees from Johns Hopkins University in 1988, and a Ph.D. degree from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, in 1992. From 1992 until 2021, he served on the faculty of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, attaining the rank of full professor in 2001. Additionally, from 2004- 2007, he served as department chair. Starting in January 2019, he moved to the National University of Singapore, where he served as Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department, where he hired 14 new professors. Since January 2024 he has served as the mechanical engineering chair at the University of Delaware, where he has hired two new professors so far. Chirikjian’s research interests include robotics, applications of group theory in state estimation, information-theoretic inequalities, and applied mathematics more broadly. He is a 1993 National Science Foundation Young Investigator and a 1994 Presidential Faculty Fellow. In 2010 he became a fellow of the IEEE. From 2014-15, he served as a program director for the US National Robotics Initiative, which included responsibilities in the Robust Intelligence cluster in the Information and Intelligent Systems Division of CISE at NSF. Chirikjian is the author of more than 250 journal and conference papers and the primary author of three books, including “Engineering Applications of Noncommutative Harmonic Analysis” (2001) and “Stochastic Models, Information Theory, and Lie Groups, Vols. 1+2” (2009, 2011). In 2016, an expanded edition of his 2001 book was published as a Dover book under a new title, “Harmonic Analysis for Engineers and Applied Scientists."