Dr. Fumiya Iida

Biography

Fumiya Iida is a Professor of Robotics in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Tokyo University of Science in Japan in 1999, and completed his Doctorate in Informatics at the University of Zurich in 2006. Between 2004 and 2005, he engaged in biomechanics research on human locomotion at the Locomotion Laboratory in the University of Jena, Germany. Following this, he worked as a postdoctoral associate at the Computer Science Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2006 to 2009. Iida has held a fellowship for prospective researchers from the Swiss National Science Foundation and has served as a professor of bio-inspired robotics at ETH Zurich. His research interests encompass biologically inspired robotics, embodied artificial intelligence, and biomechanics. He has published over forty papers in major robotics journals and conferences and is currently a member of the editorial boards of Soft Robotics and Frontiers in Robotics and AI. His research aims to improve the understanding of adaptivity and autonomy in biological systems while developing novel robotic applications that are adaptive, resilient, and energy-efficient. Specific topics of interest include legged robot locomotion, evolutionary robotics, and human-robot interactions.

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