Gregory S. Chirikjian

Willis F. Harrington Professor
Department Chair

Education

PhD | Applied Mechanics, California Institute of Technology
MSE | Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
BS | Engineering Mechanics, Johns Hopkins University
BA | Mathematics, Johns Hopkins University

Executive Summary

Gregory S. Chirikjian is an internationally recognized scholar of robotics and fellow of both the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Chirikjian is a roboticist and applied mathematician whose research interests include applications of group representation theory within engineering disciplines, kinematics, motion planning, medical image registration and the mechanics of macromolecules. His current research focuses on affordance-based reasoning in the context of robotics.

RESEARCH AREAS

• Robotics and Controls

FACULTY EXPERTISE

• Computer Vision
• Kinematics
• Mathematical Modeling