Scholar
Vijay Kumar
Google Scholar ID: FUOEBDUAAAAJ
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania
Citations & Impact
Citations
34,000
H-index
89
i10-index
445
Publications
20
Co-authors
31
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Fellow of ASME and IEEE
- Member of the National Academy of Engineering
- Member of the American Philosophical Society
- Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Recipient of numerous best paper awards at major robotics conferences
- Published extensively at top venues including ICRA and IROS (e.g., 'Large-Scale Autonomous Flight With Real-Time Semantic SLAM Under Dense Forest Canopy')
- Mentored alumni who are leaders in academia, industry, and entrepreneurship
Background
- Nemirovsky Family Dean of Penn Engineering
- Appointments in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Computer and Information Science, and Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania
- Research focuses on autonomous ground and aerial robots, bio-inspired algorithms for collective behaviors, and robot swarms
- Founder of Exyn Technologies, advisor to Treeswift, and board member of WeRobotics and O2Micro
- Former Assistant Director for Robotics and Cyber Physical Systems at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
