ISR alumna Naomi Leonard delivers distinguished lecture

ISR alumna Naomi Leonard, whose field is underwater robotics research and who made waves last year by winning a MacArthur Fellow "genius grant," delivered the Mohammed Dahleh Distinguished Lecture at the University of California Santa Barbara this week. She spoke on "Foraging by Design: Schools of Self-Guided Robotic Gliders Explore the Ocean." Leonard is a professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University. She is a 1994 ISR-affiliated Electrical Engineering Ph.D. Her advisor was Professor P.S. Krishnaprasad (ECE/ISR).

Published February 4, 2005