Walker Gosrich Defends Doctoral Dissertation

Walker Gosrich has successfully defended his doctoral dissertation, titled “Multi-Robot Coordination and Cooperation via Graph-Based Computation,” while under the advisory of Mark Yim, Asa Whitney Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and Vijay Kumar, Professor and Nemirovsky Family Dean. His research aims to advance multi-robot coordination and cooperation, focusing on resource allocation problems in applications like autonomous construction and agriculture.

“It’s been a long and winding journey, with so many opportunities to learn,” comments Gosrich. “From being a teaching assistant in the Mechatronics class helping students debug their robots into the wee hours of the morning, all the way to organizing a workshop on ethics and policy of autonomous weapons systems with some of my GRASP lab colleagues — it has been diverse and rich with opportunity and connections.”

Gosrich will be joining the New Jersey State Government working on Artificial Intelligence Policy as an Eagleton Science and Politics Fellow.