Prof. Russ Louis Tedrake

Russ Tedrake is a world leader at the intersection of robotics and control theory. He pushes the frontier of humanoid and flying robots by developing both better theory and remarkably novel algorithms. In the DARPA Robotics challenge, his team has demonstrated robots capable of walking autonomously over rough terrain as well as climbing stairs. He and his students have also demonstrated robots that can fly at high speeds using only a commodity cell-phone processor. Tedrake received universal recognition for his ground-breaking work and is the winner of numerous best-paper awards from influential robotics conferences. A superb teacher and mentor, Tedrake has vastly enriched EECS curriculum, and his edX courses are followed by thousands of students.