Ramanarayan Vasudevan

Ram Vasudevan is an associate professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan with an appointment in the University of Michigan's Robotics Program. He received a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and an Honors Degree in Physics in May 2006, an MS degree in Electrical Engineering in May 2009, and a PhD in Electrical Engineering in December 2012 all from the University of California, Berkeley. Subsequently, he worked as a postdoctoral associate in the Locomotion Group at MIT from 2012 till 2014 before joining the University of Michigan in 2015. He is a recipient of an NSF CAREER Award and ONR Young Investigator Award. His work has received best paper awards at the IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation, the ASME Dynamics Systems and Controls Conference, and IEEE OCEANS Conference and has been finalist for best paper at Robotics: Science and Systems.

Research Interests

My research focuses on the development and application of novel data-driven optimization and systems theory to quantify and improve human and robot interaction with one another and the environment. I am currently interested in the:

• design and control of semiautonomous systems
• personalized diagnostic and rehabilitative systems
• optimization and systems theory

Degrees

• Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 2012
• M.S., Electrical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 2009
• B.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, 2006