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Career

· Manager, UC Berkeley Center for Interdisciplinary Biological Inspiration (CiBER)2024–
· Bachelor of Arts in History, Amherst College
· Technical Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Biological Inspiration (CiBER)
· MBA with a marketing concentration, Columbia University
· Adjunct Professor of Market Research, Pepperdine University
· Manager, University of California, Berkeley
· Mechanical Engineering PhD Student, University of California, Berkeley
· Research Assistant, University of California, Berkeley

Publications (24)

Tail-assisted pitch control in lizards, robots and dinosaurs
Nature · 2012
328
cited
Righting and turning in mid-air using appendage inertia: reptile tails, analytical models and bio-inspired robots
Bioinspiration & Biomimetics · 2010
133
cited
A lizard-inspired active tail enables rapid maneuvers and dynamic stabilization in a terrestrial robot
2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems · 2011
122
cited
Tail Assisted Dynamic Self Righting
2012
81
cited
A nonlinear feedback controller for aerial self-righting by a tailed robot
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation · 2013
65
cited
Stress distribution and contact area measurements of a gecko toe using a high-resolution tactile sensor
Bioinspiration & Biomimetics · 2015
64
cited
Comparative Design, Scaling, and Control of Appendages for Inertial Reorientation
IEEE Transactions on robotics · 2015
52
cited
Shifts in a single muscle's control potential of body dynamics are determined by mechanical feedback
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences · 2011
34
cited
Gliding saves time but not energy in Malayan colugos
Journal of Experimental Biology · 2011
33
cited
Geckos Race Across the Water’s Surface Using Multiple Mechanisms
Current Biology · 2018
32
cited
Interdisciplinary Laboratory Course Facilitating Knowledge Integration, Mutualistic Teaming, and Original Discovery.
Integrative and Comparative Biology · 2015
22
cited
On contraction analysis for hybrid systems
arXiv.org · 2018
16
cited
Rapid Inertial Reorientation of an Aerial Insect-sized Robot Using a Piezo-actuated Tail
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation · 2019
12
cited
History-dependent perturbation response in limb muscle
Journal of Experimental Biology · 2019
8
cited
Coronal Plane Spine Twisting Composes Shape To Adjust the Energy Landscape for Grounded Reorientation
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation · 2020
5
cited
Adhesive Stress Distribution Measurement on a Gecko
Living Machines · 2014
2
cited
Tail Assisted Dynamic Self Righting: Full Derivations
2012
2
cited
Authentic discovery in course-based research experiences
2015
COLUGOS GLIDE TO SAVE TIME, NOT ENERGY
Journal of Experimental Biology · 2011
Full are determined by mechanical feedback Shifts in a single muscle ' s control potential of body dynamics
2011
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