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Mark Yim

Associate Professor, Gabel Family Term Junior Professor, Undergraduate Curriculum Chair

Phone: 215.898.5269 (voice mail)
Email: yim (@grasp . upenn . edu)
Office: 229 A Towne Building
 

Research Interests:

  • Modular reconfigurable robots and locomotion, PolyBot.
  • MEMS and batch fabrication techniques.
  • brute force digital time optimal control.


Education:

9/89–12/94 Stanford University, Stanford CA, PhD Mechanical Eng.
Dissertation: Locomotion with a Unit Modular Reconfigurable Robot
Advisor: Jean-Claude Latombe

9/87–6/89 Stanford University, Stanford CA, MS Mechanical Eng.

9/83–6/87 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD, BS Engineering Mechanics