Kevin Lynch

Professor
Northwestern University

Kevin Lynch is Professor and Chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department at Northwestern University. He is a member of the Neuroscience and Robotics Lab (nxr.northwestern.edu) and the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (nico.northwestern.edu). His research focuses on dynamics, motion planning, and control for robot manipulation and locomotion; self-organizing multi-agent systems; and functional electrical stimulation for restoration of human function.

Dr. Lynch is a Senior Editor of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters and incoming Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. He is co-author of the textbooks Principles of Robot Motion (MIT Press, 2005), Embedded Computing and Mechatronics (Elsevier, 2015), and Modern Robotics: Mechanics, Planning, and Control (Cambridge University Press 2017). He is an IEEE fellow, and the recipient of the IEEE Early Career Award in Robotics and Automation, Northwestern's Professorship of Teaching Excellence, and the Northwestern Teacher of the Year award in engineering. He earned a BSE in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University and a PhD in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University