Naveen Shamsudhin

Biography

Naveen was born in Kerala, India in March, 1987. He received his B.Tech in Instrumentation and Control Engineering from the National Institute of Technology - Tiruchirappalli (NITT) and M.Sc in Micro and Nanosystems from ETH Zurich. He is a recipient of the NITT Alumni Award (2009) and the Swiss Government Scholarship (ESKAS 2009-2011) for excellence in undergraduate and graduate studies. He has expertise in the design, development and quality control of MEMS technology through internships at the Indian Institute of Science (Bangalore) and at the Automotive Electronics division of Robert Bosch GmbH (Reutlingen). Working In close association with IBM Research Zurich, the Institute of Plant Biology at the University of Zurich, and the Multi-Scale Robotics Lab, he developed micro and nanorobotic tools for single cell mechanics, completing his doctoral degree in January 2017. His publications can be found here. He joined the Multi-Scale Robotics Lab as a post-doctoral researcher in November 2017. His current academic interests are the history and philosophy of technology in particular robotics and artificial intelligence (ex. www.roboethics.ch), engineering for the developing world, and revitalizing inter-(trans-)disciplinarity in academic education and teaching (ex. ETH Cortona Week, Roboethics Workshop).

Research Interest

robots