Anurag Purwar
Anurag Purwar is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and an affiliate faculty of Institute for Advanced Computational Sciences (IACS) at Stony Brook University. His research lies at the intersection of machine learning and kinematics in service of mechanical design of robots and mechanisms. He is a co-founder of Mechanismic Inc, which brought an educational robotics product called SnappyXO to the market for K-12 and college students and created MotionGen, an AI-driven mechanism design software that has 100,000+ users in more than 150 countries. He is a recipient of several awards including best paper awards at ASME- IDETC conference, ASEE Distinguished Teaching award, Margaret Ashida STEM Leadership Award by The New York State STEM Education Collaborative, ASME Outstanding Student Section Advisor, and three Technology Accelerator Fund Awards from SUNY Research Foundation. He has been a PI and Co- PI of several projects sponsored by NSF, ONR, SUNY Research Foundation, and industry. He received his Ph.D from State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook and B.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, both in Mechanical Engineering. Anurag Purwar is a senior member of the National Academy of Inventors.
Bin Zi
Dr. Bin Zi is currently the Dean and Full Professor of the School of Mechanical Engineering, and the Director of the Robotics Institute in Hefei University of Technology, China. He received his Ph.D. in Mechatronic Engineering from Xidian University, China, in 2007. He was a visiting scholar with the Chair of Mechanics and Robotics, University […]
Mark Fuge
Mark Fuge is an Associated Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he is also an affiliate faculty in the Institute for Systems Research and a member of the Maryland Robotics Center and Human-Computer Interaction Lab. His staff and students study fundamental scientific and mathematical questions behind how humans and […]