I am the Dean of the College of Engineering and Computational Sciences at the Coloardo School of Mines (CSM). I am also the G.A. Dobelman Distinguished Chair and Professor of Engineering and the Director of the Center for Automation, Robotics, and Distributed Intelligence (CARDI).

My general research interests include iterative learning control, autonomous systems and robotics, and applications of control to industrial and mechatronic systems. More recently I have been working to extend iterative learning control theory to improve and speed up processes that involve repeated processing passes or operations along a spatial dimension, so-called multi-pass systems. I am also interested in the use of networked robotics sensors and actuators, including the theory of cooperative control in multi-agent systems as applied to building efficiency control.  

I am a professional engineer, involved in several professional societies and editorial activities, and am interested in engineering education, particularly capstone senior design.