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Russ Tedrake MIT 32-380 32 Vassar Street Cambridge, MA 02139 USA (617) 297-ROBOT a.k.a. (617) 297-7626 russt at mit . edu Online Calendar

Research Interests

I am interested in finding elegant control solutions for interesting (underactuated, stochastic, and/or difficult to model) dynamical systems that I can build and experiment with. Please see the description of the Robot Locomotion Group for more information.

Teaching

Fall 2012: 6.003 - Signals and Systems

6.832 - Underactuated Robotics

6.095 - Humanoid Robotics Competition (Robo-One)

6.01   - Introduction to EECS 1

6.011 - Introduction to Communication, Control, and Signal Processing

Biography

Russ is the X Consortium Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT, and the Director of the Center for Robotics at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, the MIT Jerome Saltzer Award for undergraduate teaching, the DARPA Young Faculty Award in Mathematics, the 2012 Ruth and Joel Spira Teaching Award, and was named a Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellow.

Russ received his B.S.E. in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1999, and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 2004, working with Sebastian Seung. After graduation, he joined the MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department as a Postdoctoral Associate. During his education, he has also spent time at Microsoft, Microsoft Research, and the Santa Fe Institute.

Curriculum Vitae: pdf ( 81K).