Metin Sitti

Metin Sitti “Bio-inspired Small-Scale Soft Robotics”

Prof. Metin Sitti received the BSc and MSc degrees in electrical and electronics engineering from Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 1992 and 1994, respectively, and the PhD degree in electrical engineering from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 1999. He was a research scientist at University of California at Berkeley, USA during 1999-2002 and a professor in Department of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, USA during 2002-2016. Since 2014, he has been the director of the Physical Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart, Germany. His research interests include small-scale physical intelligence, mobile milli/microrobots, bio-inspiration, advanced soft functional materials, and untethered soft medical devices. He is an IEEE Fellow. He received the ERC Advanced Grant in 2019, Rahmi Koç Science Prize in 2018, SPIE Nanoengineering Pioneer Award in 2011, and NSF CAREER Award in 2005. He received many best paper and video awards in major robotics conferences. He is the editor-in-chief of Progress in Biomedical Engineering and Journal of Micro-Bio Robotics, associate editor in Extreme Mechanics Letters and Biomimetics & Bioinspiration, and an editorial board member in Advanced Material Technologies and Advanced Intelligent Systems journals.

Title: “Bio-inspired Small-Scale Soft Robotics”