Vijay Kumar
Bio
Prof Vijay Kumar is a part of the Academic Advisory Board of Plaksha University. He is the Nemirovsky Family Dean of Penn Engineering, with appointments in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Computer and Information Science, and Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania.
His group works on creating autonomous ground and aerial robots, designing bio-inspired algorithms for collective behaviors, and developing robot swarms. The group has won many Best Paper Awards at conferences, and group alumni are leaders in teaching, research, business, and entrepreneurship.
Prof Kumar is a Fellow of ASME and IEEE and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He is the founder of Exyn Technologies, an advisor to Treeswift, and serves on the board of WeRobotics and O2Micro. He has held many administrative positions in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, including Director of the GRASP Laboratory, Chair of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, and Deputy Dean. He served as the Assistant Director of Robotics and Cyber Physical Systems at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.