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Aaron Becker
Assistant Professor of Robotics at University of Houston.
Aaron Becker's passion is robotics & control. As an Assistant Prof. in Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Houston, he is building a robotics lab. An NSF '16 CAREER recipient & winner of several best papers, his lab manipulates micro-scale swarms with magnetic fields, navigates robotic tools using medical MRIs, kills mosquitos with drones, searches for oil, and assembles structures with swarms.
Previously as a Research Fellow with Boston Children's Hospital & Harvard Medical School, he implemented robotics powered and controlled by the magnetic field of an MRI. As a Rice University Postdoc in the Multi-Robot Systems Lab, Aaron investigated control of distributed systems and nanorobotics with experts in the fields. Aaron earned his PhD in Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Visit website: http://www.ece.uh.edu/faculty/becker
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Details last updated 02-Apr-2020
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