D'Andrea, Raffaello, Prof. Dr.

Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control

 

Areas of interest:

• Robotics, Systems and Control

Biography
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Raffaello D'Andrea has been full professor at ETH Zurich since 2007. Prof. D'Andrea was born in 1967, in Pordenone, Italy. He received the BASc.degree in Engineering Science from the University of Toronto in 1991, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in the Division of Engineering & Applied Science from the California Institute of Technology in 1992 and 1997, respectively. He was an assistant, and then associate, professor at Cornell University from 1997 to 2007.

Prof. D'Andrea's contributions range from the highly theoretical to the very applied, and incorporate mathematics, physics, computer science, technological innovations, and art. He received a United States Presidential Early Career Award for Science and Engineering in 2002 for his "Theoretical and Experimental Advances in the Robust Control of Feedback Systems". He is the recipient of two best paper awards from the American Automatic Control Council and the IEEE, has won a National Science Foundation Career Award, and has received several teaching awards in the area of experiential learning. He was the faculty advisor and system architect of the Cornell Robot Soccer Team, four time world champions at the international RoboCup competition in Sweden, Australia, Italy, and Japan. He is also the system architect at Kiva Systems, a Boston area high-tech company where he helped launch a revolutionary material handling system that utilizes hundreds of fully autonomous mobile robots. His work has been featured on Scientific American Frontiers and the Discovery Channel, at the Smithsonian, the Tech Museum of Innovation, and the Spoleto Festival. Exhibitions include the Venice Biennale, the Luminato Festival, Ars Electronica, Idea City, and the National Gallery of Canada.

Link to his research projects