Biography
Sitti received his BSc and MSc degrees in electrical and electronics engineering from Boğaziçi University in Istanbul in 1992 and 1994, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1999. He was a research scientist at UC Berkeley from 1999 to 2002 and a Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University from 2002 to 2014. He became a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart in 2014.
On November 9, 2020, exactly 31 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Sitti was presented with the «Breakthrough of the Year» Award 2020 [3] [4] in the Engineering and Technology category [5] by the Falling Walls World Science Summit. In March 2019, he received an Advanced Grant [6] from the European Research Council (ERC), which is awarded only to established researchers with a proven track record of excellence. [7] In terms of the originality and significance of research contributions, grant recipients are exceptional leaders in their given fields. What is more, Sitti and his team recently received the Best Paper Award [8] at the Robotics Science and Systems Conference for their invention of a baby jellyfish-inspired soft millirobot with medical functions. [9]
Sitti also received the Rahmi Koç Medal of Science [10] (2018), Best Paper Award [11] in the Robotics Science and Systems Conference (2019), IEEE/ASME Best Mechatronics Paper Award (2014), [12] SPIE Nanoengineering Pioneer Award (2011), Best Paper Award in the IEEE/RSJ Intelligent Robots and Systems Conference (1998, 2009), and NSF CAREER Award (2005). He is the editor-in-chief of both Progress in Biomedical Engineering and Journal of Micro-Bio Robotics, [13] and an associate editor for both Science Advances and Extreme Mechanics Letters. [14]
Sitti has published two books and over 460 peer-reviewed papers, over 300 of which have appeared in archival journals. His group's research breakthroughs have been featured in the popular press, such as New York Times, [15] Wall Street Journal, [16] Le Monde, The Economist, Der Spiegel, Forbes , Süddeutsche Zeitung, [17] Science, New Scientist [18] Science News, [19] Nature News, [20] MIT Technology Review, IEEE Spectrum Magazine and Stuttgarter Zeitung. [21] He has given over 200 invited keynote, plenary or distinguished seminars in universities, conferences and industry. He has over 12 issued patents and over 15 pending patents.
Research
Overview
Metin Sitti is a pioneer in wireless tiny medical robots, gecko-inspired adhesives, and bio-inspired miniature robots. His group, called the Physical Intelligence Department, strives to understand the principles of design, locomotion, control, perception, and learning of small-scale mobile robots. [22] Sitti and his team aim to encode intelligence (e.g., sensing, actuation, control, memory, logic, computation, adaptation, learning and decision-making capabilities) into robots. They use smart stimuli-responsive materials, structures and mechanisms to encode intelligence into the physical body of a robot. [23]
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