Roderich Gross

Roderich Gross received a Diploma degree in computer science in 2001 from Dortmund University of Technology, Germany and a doctoral degree in engineering sciences in 2007 from Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. From 2005 to 2007 he was a JSPS postdoctoral fellow at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, a research assistant at the University of Bristol, UK and a Marie Curie Fellow at Unilever R&D, UK. From 2008 to 2009, he was a Marie Curie Fellow at EPFL, Switzerland. From 2010 to 2013, he was a Lecturer and since 2014 he has been a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering at the University of Sheffield, UK. His research interests include distributed robotics and natural computing. His h-index is 21 (Google Scholar). He is an Associate Editor of the journal Swarm Intelligence, and a Part Editor of the Springer Handbook of Computational Intelligence. He has served as an Associate Editor for IROS 2012–2014 and ICRA 2012–2014.

Scott Kuindersma

Scott Kuindersma is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Robot Locomotion Group at MIT CSAIL. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2012. His research interests broadly encompass legged robotics, optimization, control, nonlinear systems, and machine learning. He has developed and implemented control algorithms for several state-of-the-art humanoids including the UMass uBot, Robonaut 2, and Boston Dynamics’ Atlas. Currently, he is the Planning and Control Lead for MIT’s DARPA Robotics Challenge team.