Bio sketch

Thomas Libby is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Washington, working in collaboration with Sam Burden in Electrical Engineering and Tom Daniel in Biology. He received his doctoral degree and his bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was also the technical director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Bio-inspiration in Education and Research (CiBER). His research seeks design and control principles for locomotion, using a combination of model-based dimensional reduction and comparative experiments in animals and robots. He is the recipient of a WRF Innovation Postdoctoral Fellowship in Neuroengineering.