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| Dr. Dennis Hong Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Director, Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory, Virginia Tech |
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| Recorded: 6/28/07 | |
| Dr. Dennis W. Hong is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Tech. As the director of RoMeLa (Robotics & Mechanisms Laboratory) at Virginia Tech, his research is funded by the National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research, DARPA, and by the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Dr. Hong recently received the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award. The five-year CAREER grant, worth more than $400,000, is the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious award for creative junior faculty who are considered likely to become academic leaders of the future. Dr. Hong is a two-time recipient of the Magoon Award (1998 and 1999) for excellence in teaching at Purdue University, won the ASME Freudenstein / General Motors Young Investigator Award and the 2nd Annual Biomimicry Award / Best Paper Award at the 29th ASME Mechanisms and Robotics Conference (2005), the ASPIRES Award (2004) at Virginia Tech, and was selected as a NASA Summer Faculty Fellow at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California (2005). He also has patents for a device for medical applications. Dr. Hong’s research interests lie in the area of robotics with a focus on Biologically inspired robot locomotion, design and analysis of mechanical systems, and kinematics and dynamics of robotic systems "Robot Evolution by Intelligent Design" is featured on YouTube. |
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