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Vijay Kumar is the Nemirovsky Family Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on collective behaviors in biological and robotic systems, group design, and the creation of novel architectures and algorithms for cooperating robots. He aims to develop systems that can function autonomously in unstructured and dynamic environments, addressing key challenges such as integration of control, communication, perception, and operation at smaller sizes with limited actuation and sensing capabilities. Kumar's overarching research themes include modeling nature, creating bio-inspired architectures, and understanding both group and individual dynamics. He has made significant contributions to fields such as multi-robot and multi-agent systems, robot mechanism design, and the design of robust, scalable autonomous systems.
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