Nilanjan Chakraborty

Biography

Nilanjan Chakraborty joined the Mechanical Engineering Faculty at Stony Brook University in the Fall of 2014. His research interests are in robotics, artificial intelligence, dynamical systems, and applied optimization. He is interested in developing capabilities for robots that will allow them to work robustly and reliably with or without human teammates and enable long-term autonomy in robotic systems. He specializes in developing contact dynamics based algorithms for manipulation planning, robot motion planning, and distributed planning for multi-robot systems. He is a member of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society and ACM. He has served as a reviewer for leading robotics journals and conferences and also served as an Associate Editor for IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. He was a recipient of the Best Paper Award (Computer Systems Technical Group) at the Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society in 2013 and the Best Student Paper Award at Robotics: Science and Systems Conference in 2007.

Research Interest

Robot Motion Planning, Multi-robot Coordination, Human-Robot Interaction, Mechanism Design, Multi-body Dynamics, Distributed Intelligent Systems for Energy Automation, Sensor Networks, Distributed Algorithms, Combinatorial Optimization.