Aaron D. Ames

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Aaron D. Ames
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater University of California, Berkeley
University of St. Thomas
Scientific career
Fields Bipeds
Control theory
Institutions California Institute of Technology
Georgia Institute of Technology
Texas A&M University
Doctoral advisor S. Shankar Sastry

Aaron D. Ames has been the Bren Professor of Mechanical and Civil Engineering and Control and Dynamical Systems at California Institute of Technology, [1] in Pasadena, California, since 2017. Formerly, he was an associate professor of mechanical engineering and electrical and computer engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, [2] Atlanta, Georgia, and an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Texas A&M University, [3] College Station, Texas.

Ames received his PhD in electrical and computer engineering from University of California, Berkeley [4] in 2006 under S. Shankar Sastry. He was the recipient of the Donald P. Eckman Award [5] in 2015 for his contributions in bipedal robotic research. He was also a recipient of the 2017 Okawa Foundation Research Grant [6] for his research project entitled "Safety-Critical Autonomy in Robotic Locomotion". This prize honors top young researchers working in the fields of information and telecommunications.

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  5. ↑ "Donald P. Eckman Award | American Automatic Control Council".
  6. ↑ "The Okawa Foundation for Information and Telecommunications".


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