Prof. Alberto Rodriguez

Professor Rodriguez leads the Manipulation and Mechanisms Lab at MIT (MCube), researching autonomous dexterous manipulation and robot automation. He is also associate head of house at MIT's Sidney-Pacific graduate dorm, where he lives with his family. He graduated in mathematics (2005) and telecommunication engineering (2006) from the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya and earned his Ph.D. (2013) from the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Rodriguez has received Best Paper Awards at conferences RSS’11, ICRA’13, RSS’18, IROS'18, RSS'19, and ICRA'21, and the 2018 Best Manipulation System Paper Award from Amazon, and the 2020 IEEE Transactions on Robotics King-Sun Fu Memorial Best Paper Award. He has been a finalist for best paper awards at IROS’16, IROS'18, ICRA'20, RSS'20, and ICRA'21. He led Team MIT-Princeton in the Amazon Robotics Challenge between 2015 and 2017, and received Faculty Research Awards from Amazon in 2018, 2019, and 2020, and from Google in 2020. He is also the recipient of the 2020 IEEE Early Academic Career Award in Robotics and Automation.