Bio: Roger Quinn, Case Western Reserve University

Roger D. Quinn is the Arthur P. Armington Professor of Engineering and a Distinguished University Professor at Case Western Reserve University. He joined the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering department in 1986 after receiving a Ph.D. (1985) from Virginia Tech and M.S. (1983) and B.S. (1980) degrees from the University of Akron.  He has directed the CWRU Biologically Inspired Robotics program since its inception in 1990and graduated 140 graduate students in the field, many of whom have reached leadership positions in industry and academics.  His research, in collaboration with premier biologists, is devoted to modeling animal neuromechanical systems and the development of robots based upon biological principles. He has authored more than 350 full-length publications and 9 patents on practical devices.  His biology-engineering collaborative work on behavior based distributed control, robot autonomy, human-machine interfacing, soft robots, and neural control systems have each earned awards.