Shai Revzen
PostDoc '12, ESE - Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
Shai Revzen is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in the College of Engineering, and holds a courtesy faculty appointment in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in the College of Literature, Science and the Arts. He received his PhD in Integrative Biology doing research in the PolyPEDAL Lab at the University of California at Berkeley, and did his postdoctoral work in the GRASP Laboratory of the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to his academic work, Shai was Chief Architect R&D of the convergent systems division of Harmonic Lightwaves (HLIT), and a co-founder of Bio-Systems Analysis, a biomedical technology start-up.
As principal investigator of the Biologically Inspired Robotics and Dynamical Systems (BIRDS) lab, Shai sets the research agenda and innovative tone of the lab. He believes in the intrinsic value of fundamental science, and of its transformative potential for robotics and future technology. Under his supervision, the lab combines work in three disciplines: robotics, mathematics, and biology.
Research Groups
Publications
Longitudinal quasi-static stability predicts changes in dog gait on rough terrain
Publisher Journal of Experimental Biology
Morphology and the gradient of a symmetric potential predict gait transitions of dogs
Publisher Biological Cybernetics
Why We Need More Degrees of Freedom
Publisher Procedia IUTAM
Event-selected vector field discontinuities yield piecewise-differentiable flows
Publisher SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems (SIADS)
Director, GRASP Lab; Faculty Director, Design Studio (Venture Labs); Asa Whitney Professor, MEAM