Daniela L. Rus
| Daniela L. Rus | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1963 (age 53–54) Cluj, Romania |
| Residence | American |
| Citizenship | American |
| Nationality | Romanian |
| Fields | Robotics; Computer Science |
| Institutions |
Dartmouth College; Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Alma mater | Cornell University |
| Doctoral advisor | John Hopcroft |
| Notable awards |
NAE member (2015) MacArthur fellow (2002) IEEE fellow (2009) AAAI fellow (2009) ACM Fellow (2015) |
Daniela L. Rus (born 1963 in Cluj, Romania) is a Romanian computer scientist, and Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In 1993 Rus received her Ph.D. at Cornell University under the supervision of John Hopcroft. She started her academic career as an Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor in the Computer Science Department at Dartmouth College before moving to MIT.
At Dartmouth College's Computer Science Department, Rus founded and directed the Dartmouth Robotics Laboratory. She is currently the Director of MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and head of its Distributed Robotics Lab.
Rus is a member of the National Academy of Engineering NAE, and a fellow of AAAI and IEEE. She was also the recipient of an NSF Career award and an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation fellowship, and was a recipient of the 2002 MacArthur Fellowship.
Rus’ research interests include robotics, mobile computing and programmable matter. She is known for her work on self-reconfiguring robots, shape-shifting machines that have the ability to adapt to different environments by altering their internal geometric structure. They do this on their own, without remote control, for locomotion, manipulation, or sensing purposes. She has shown that these self-reconfigurable machines could be used in many situations where the possible obstacles and constraints on movement could not ever be fully anticipated in preprogrammed control software (e.g., deep sea or planetary exploration).
Rus's research is focused on developing the science of networked/distributed/collaborative robotics. Simply put, her research answers the question: how can many machines collaborate to achieve a common goal? Distributed networked robot systems consist of multiple robots that are connected by communication. In these systems the robots interact locally with the environment.
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