Hod Lipson

Hod Lipson (born 1967 in Haifa, Israel) is an American robotics engineer. He is the director of Cornell University's Creative Machines Lab (CCML), formerly known as Computational Synthesis Lab (CCSL), at the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Lipson's work focuses on evolutionary robotics, design automation, rapid prototyping, artificial life, and creating machines that can demonstrate some aspects of human creativity. His publications have been cited close to 10,000 times, and he has an h-index of 50, as of November 8, 2015.

Biography

Lipson received B.Sc. (1989) and Ph.D. (1998) degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Technion Israel Institute of Technology. Before joining the faculty of Cornell in 2001, he was an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Brandeis University's, and a postdoctoral researcher at MIT's Mechanical Engineering Department.

Research

Lipson has been involved with machine learning and presented his "self-aware" robot at the 2007 TED conference.