Dr. Satyandra K. Gupta, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and the Institute for Systems Research and director of the Maryland Robotics Center, will go on inter-governmental personal act (IPA) assignment to serve as program director in the Robust Intelligence Cluster within the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems at the National Science Foundation. This is a two-year assignment that starts on Sept 10th, 2012.

An NSF CAREER and PECASE award winner, Dr. Gupta’s research interests include computer-aided design, manufacturing automation and robotics. He has authored or co-authored more than two hundred sixty articles in journals, conference proceedings, and book chapters and is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and a senior member of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Dr. Gupta has served as committee chair, conference organizer, and editorial board member for leading organizations in his field. Prior to joining the University of Maryland, he was a research scientist in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He received the bachelor of engineering degree in mechanical engineering and the master of technology in production engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, and the doctorate in mechanical engineering from the Clark School.