Gregory Chirikjian
Professor of Robotics
Research Interests
Professor Chirikjian's teaching and research interests span robotics, applied mathetmatics and physical AI.
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Prior to joining MBZUAI, Professor Chirikjian held faculty appointments at the University of Delaware, the National University of Singapore, and Johns Hopkins University.
- Ph.D. in Applied Mechanics from California Institute of Technology.
- Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University.
- Bachelor of Science in Engineering Mechanics from Johns Hopkins University.
- Willis F. Harrington Professorship, University of Delaware, 2024.
- Highlighted Paper, CVPR 2023.
- Oral Paper Presentation, CVPR 2022.
- ASME Machine Design Award, August 2019.
- Best Paper of the Year Award, IEEE/ASME Trans. Automation Sci., July 2015.
- ASME Mechanisms and Robotics Award, August 2014.
- A.T. Yang Memorial Award, ASME IDETC, August 2014.
- Fellow of the IEEE, 2010.
- Fellow of the ASME, 2008.
- Presidential Faculty Fellow, 1994.
- Zhang C., Meng X., Qi D., Wang X., Chirikjian G.S.: "The Curious Robot: Generalized Affordance Reasoning with Physics-Based and LLM-Enhanced Imagination." 19th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics, 2025.
- Khan S., Chirikjian G.S.: "Parameter Estimation on Homogeneous Spaces." IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2025.
- Ye J., Jayaraman A.S., Chirikjian G.S., "Uncertainty propagation on unimodular matrix lie groups." IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2024.
- Ruan S., Liu W., Wang X., Meng X., Chirikjian G.S.: "PRIMP: PRobabilistically-Informed Motion Primitives for Efficient Affordance Learning from Demonstration." IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2024.
- Chirikjian G.S.: "Bootstrapping Globally Optimal Variational Calculus Solutions." Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations, 2023.
- Liu W., Wu Y., Ruan S. and Chirikjian G.S.: "Marching-Primitives: Shape Abstraction from Signed Distance Function." Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2023.
- Meng X., Wu H., Ruan S., Chirikjian G. S.: "Prepare the chair for the bear! Robot imagination of sitting affordance to reorient previously unseen chairs." IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2023.
- Ruan S., Poblete K.L., Wu H., Ma Q., Chirikjian G.S.: "Efficient Path Planning in Narrow Passages for Robots With Ellipsoidal Components." IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2023.
- Liu W., Wu Y., Ruan S., Chirikjian G.S.: "Robust and Accurate Superquadric Recovery: a Probabilistic Approach," CVPR, 2022.
- Ruan S., Chirikjian G.S.: "Closed-form Minkowski sums of convex bodies with smooth positively curved boundaries." Computer-Aided Design, 2022.
- Wu H., Meng X., Ruan S., Chirikjian G. S.: "Put the bear on the chair! Intelligent robot interaction with previously unseen chairs via robot imagination." International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2022.
- Wu H., Misra D., Chirikjian G.S.: "Is that a chair? imagining affordances using simulations of an articulated human body." IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2020.
- Wu H., Chirikjian G.S.: "Can I pour into it? robot imagining open containability affordance of previously unseen objects via physical simulations." IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2020.
- Chirikjian G.S., Kyatkin A.B.: "Harmonic Analysis for Engineers and Applied Scientists." Dover, July 2016.