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James A. Mynderse is an Associate Professor in the A. Leon Linton Department of Mechanical, Robotics, and Industrial Engineering at Lawrence Technological University where he serves as director for the MS in Mechatronic Systems Engineering program. He received his BS, MS, and PhD in mechanical engineering from Purdue University. His research interests include mechatronics, dynamic systems, and control with applications to piezoelectric actuators, UAVs, and manufacturing. He serves as the faculty advisor for the LTU Baja SAE team.

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Nima Lotfi received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Sahand University of Technology, Tabriz, Iran, in 2006, his M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2010, and his Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from Missouri University of Science and Technology,
Rolla, MO, USA, in 2016. He is currently an Assistant Professor with the Mechanical Engineering Department at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL, USA. His current research interests include characterization and electrochemical modeling of Li-ion batteries, traditional and electrochemical model-based Li-ion battery management system design, and real-world applications of
control and estimation theory especially in alternative and renewable energy systems, mechatronics, robotics, and electrified and autonomous transportation. Dr. Lotfi is a member of the IEEE Control Systems Society and ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Division.

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Dr. Bajaj earned his bachelor’s, master’s and PhD in mechanical engineering from Purdue University, and has held research assistant positions on several projects in the areas of nonlinear dynamics, control systems, sensing and machine learning, computational design, and heat transfer. He has held a summer research position with Alcatel-Lucent Bell Laboratories and has also served as a consulting mechatronics engineer with two startup technology companies, in the areas of force sensing in gaming devices and the control of multi-actuator haptics. His research interests include nonlinear dynamical and control systems, and the analysis and design of mechatronic systems, especially in the context of cyber-physical systems—in particular making them secure and resilient.

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Vishesh Vikas is an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa (UA) and the director of the Agile Robotics Lab at UA. His research interests are in the field of soft robotics, bioinspired robotics and tensegrity mechanisms. He received his MS (2008) and PhD (2011) in Mechanical Engineering from the Center of Intelligent Machines and Robotics, University of Florida, Gainesville. Thereafter, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Neuromechanics and Biomimetics Devices, Tufts University (2012-2016). He has served as the Chair of Student Mechanisms and Robotics Design Competition at the ASME IDETC (2017-2019). Currently, he serves on the Electronic Editorial Board for the ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics (JMR).

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Michael A. Gennert is Professor of Robotics Engineering, CS, and ECE at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where he leads the WPI Humanoid Robotics Laboratory and was Founding Director of the Robotics Engineering Program. He has worked at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, the University of California Riverside, PAR Technology Corporation, and General Electric. He received the S.B. in CS, S.B. in EE, and S.M. in EECS in 1980 and the Sc.D. in EECS in 1987 from MIT. Dr. Gennert's research interests include robotics, computer vision, and image processing, with ongoing projects in humanoid robotics, robot navigation and guidance, biomedical image processing, and stereo and motion vision. He led WPI teams in the DARPA Robotics Challenge and NASA Space Robotics Challenge and is author or co-author of over 100 papers. His research has been supported by DARPA, NASA, NIH, NSF, and industry. He is a member of Sigma Xi, and a senior member of IEEE and ACM.

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