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Lincy Professor of Unmanned Aerial Systems

Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Expertise: Robotics, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Drones, Autonomous systems, Humanoids

Biography

Paul Oh is the Lincy Professor of Unmanned Aerial Systems in the mechanical engineering department for the Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering.

He is establishing an unmanned autonomous systems laboratory at 51�ԹϺ��, complete with a fleet of drones and several humanoid robots.

From 2000 to 2014, he served as a mechanical engineering professor at Drexel University in Philadelphia and founded and directed the Drexel Autonomous Systems Laboratory (DASL).

Oh is the former program director for robotics at the National Science Foundation where he managed a portfolio that supported almost all robotics research in American universities. He has worked for Boeing, the Office of Naval Research and the NASA Caltech/Jet Propulsion Lab.

Awards

Faculty fellowships at NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, 2002
Faculty fellowship in Naval Research Lab, 2003
National Science Foundation Career Award, 2004

Education

B.Eng., in Mechanical Engineering, McGill University in Canada
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Seoul National in South Korea
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University

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You wanna see her move? I think that's the fun part. The room is thick with anticipation and fabricated skulls. She's gonna wake up. Give her a second. Matt McMullen eyes his creation as her eyes flutter open in return, her gaze settling upon all the disembodied faces and mechanical mandibles surrounding her in this workshop where fake hair co-mingles with real ambition.