Xinyan Deng. 1. Biologically inspired micro aerial vehicles and underwater robots 2. Bio-inspired control systems

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1 Research Interests Bio-inspired robotics Xinyan Deng Bio-Robotics Laboratory Department of Mechanical Engineering Purdue University West Lafayette, IN Tel:(765) Lab Webpage: xdeng/ October 1, Biologically inspired micro aerial vehicles and underwater robots 2. Bio-inspired control systems Principles of aerial and aquatic locomotion in animals 1. Dynamics, stability and control of locomotion 2. Experimental fluid mechanics Employment Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, 2009-present Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware, Graduate Student Researcher, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California at Berkeley Education Ph.D. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, Major: Control Systems. Minors: Mathematics, Signal Processing. Advisor: Shankar Sastry. Dissertation Title: Flapping Flight for Robotic Insects: Modeling and Flight Control in Hover. B.S. Department of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Tianjin University, China, Major: Automatic Control. Awards and Honors NSF CAREER Award, JEB Outstanding Paper Prize Finalist, Journal of Experimental Biology, Excellence in Teaching Award Nomination, University of Delaware, Best Student Paper Award Finalist, first author, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA),

2 Awards and Honors Obtained by Students School of Mechanical Engineering Ingersoll-Rand Fellowship, April Hugh W. and Edna Donnan Graduate Fellowship, by Bo Cheng, February Best Presenter, Purdue Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, by Spencer Frank, Summer Nowinski Award, (awarded to the best undergraduate researcher annually, highest honor for undergraduate student at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware), by Aaron Winn, NASA Excellence in Undergraduate Research, NASA Delaware Space Grant College Consortium, by Aliza Greenblatt and Raymond McCauley, Science and Engineering Scholars Award for undergraduate research, by Anne Martin, Aliza Greenblatt, Raymond McCauley, Courses Taught ME375 Modeling of Dynamic Systems, Fall 12 - Spring 13, Purdue junior class; enrollment: 75. ME578 Digital Control, Purdue graduate course; Spring 12, enrollment: 12. ME597 Biologically Inspired Robotics, Purdue graduate course; Fall 11, enrollment: 15. ME375 Modeling of Dynamic Systems, Fall 09 - Spring 11, Purdue junior class; enrollment: 60. ME497 Bio-robotics, Purdue undergraduate independent study; Fall 09 - Spring 11, average enrollment: 4. ME301 Vibration and Control, Fall 04 - Fall 06, UD junior class; average enrollment: 75. ME311 Machine Design, Fall 07 - Fall 08, UD junior class; average enrollment: 75. ME467/667 Bio-robotics, Spring 09, UD graduate course and senior elective; average enrollment: 20. ME468 NASA Senior Design, Spring 09, UD senior elective; average enrollment: 12. ME624 Advanced Control Systems, Spring 05, UD graduate course; average enrollment: 8. Research Grants National Science Foundation. Collaborative Research: Integrating Engineering and Biology Approaches to Investigate Flight Control in Hummingbirds, PI, $399,980, September, August, National Science Foundation. Aerodynamic Damping and Dynamic Stability of Flapping Flight, PI, $273,972, May, April,

3 Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Flow Control and Force Modulation on Flapping Wings, PI, $453,767, May, May, Air Force Research Lab. subcontract to Michigan/AFRL Collaborative Center in Control Science, PI, $786,125, October, September, National Science Foundation. NSF CAREER Award Theory and practice of flapping flight: from natural to robotic insects, NSF IIS , PI, $497,960, January, December, National Science Foundation, Frontiers of Control Workshop, PI, $49,999, September, May, Purdue Research Foundation. Near Hover Dynamics and Passive Stability for Flapping Flight, PI, $16,795, June, May, Purdue Energy Fund. Innovation in Hydropower: Rapid Prototyping and Assessment of a Novel, Sustainable, Hydroelectric Technology, Co-PI, $55,000, NASA Space Grant College Consortium Bio-inspired robotics laboratory research, PI, $35,000, University of Delaware Research Foundation. robotic fish, PI, $25,000, Bio-inspired Ostraciiform underwater University, College and Department Services Area Exam Committee, Purdue, Spring and Fall Associate Director, NASA Delaware Space Grant College Consortium, UD, Department Representative, College Election Committee, UD, Faculty Search Committee, UD, Chair, Department Seminars, UD, Undergraduate Laboratory Committee, UD, , Graduate Committee, UD, Professional Activities Technical Committees Co-Chair, Technical Committee for Biorobotics, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, present. Co-Chair, Technical Committee for Prototyping and Automation, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society,

4 Conference Program Organizations Co-Chair, Workshop on Integration of Mechanics, Sensing, Actuation and Control in Biological and Bio-inspired Locomotion, Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS 12), Sidney, Australia, Co-Chair, 50 Years of Robotics Special Symposium on Biologically inspired Robots, IEEE/JRS International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems(IROS 11), San Francisco, CA, Program Committee, IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM 11), International Program Committee, 8th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, (ICINCO 11), International Program Committee, 1st International Conference on Applied Bionics and Biomechanics, (ICABB 10), Chair, Session on Control in Biological Systems, ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference(DSCC 10), Boston, Massachusetts, Co-Chair, Workshop on Biologically-inspired Robots, IEEE/JRS International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 09), St. Louis, MO, Co-Chair, Workshop on Critical Impediments and Challenges for Multi-Modal Robotic Locomotion, IEEE/JRS International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 09), St. Louis, MO, Co-Chair, Session on Biologically inspired Robots, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 09), Kobe, Japan, International Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (RAM 08), China, Program Committee, IEEE/ASME International Conference on Mechantronics and Embedded Systems and Applications (MESA 08), China, Co-Chair, Session on Bio-inspired Underwater Robots, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 07), Rome, Italy, Program Committee, IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM 08), Xi an, China, International Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (RAM 06), Bangkok, Thailand, Sponsored Workshops PI and Co-Chair, NSF Workshop on Frontiers in Dynamic Systems and Control, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, November, Participant by Invitation, NSF Workshop on Bio-sensing and Bio-actuation, College Park, MD, November

5 Participant by Invitation, NSF US-Korea Workshop on Bio-sensing and Bio-actuation, Seoul, Korea, May Editorship of Journals Guest Editor, Focused Section on Bio-inspired Mechatronics, IEEE/ASME Transaction on Mechatronics, Guest Editor, Special Issue on Focused areas and future trends of bio-inspired robots, Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics, Proposal Reviewer Panel Review, NSF NRI (National Robotics Initiative), Panel Review, NSF CMMI Control, 2009, Panel Review, NSF CMMI Dynamics, Panel Review, NSF CMMI Sensor, 2006, 2008, Panel Review, NSF CISE IIS, 2007, Proposal Review, Army Research Office, 2009, Proposal Review, European Science Foundation, Proposal Review, Canada Foundation for Innovation, Proposal Review, Dutch Technology Foundation STW, Book Reviewer Robotics: Kinematics, Dynamics and Control, Springer, Vehicle Dynamics and Control, Springer, Journal Reviewer IEEE Transaction on Robotics IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics IEEE Control System Magazine Journal of Applied Mechanics Journal of Bio-inspiration and Bio-mimetics Robotica Mechatronics AIAA Journal 5

6 Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics Advanced Robotics Autonomous Robots Journal of Experimental Biology Journal of Theoretical Biology Biological Letters Journal of Royal Society Interface Journal of Fluid Mechanics Experiments in Fluids Journal of Aircraft Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology ACTA MECHANICA SINICA Journal of Bionic Engineering Aerospace Science and Technology Mechanism and Machine Theory Composite Science and Technology Conference Paper Reviewer IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) IEEE/JRS International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) IEEE International Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) American Control Conference (ACC) IEEE International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM) IEEE International Conferences on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (RAM) AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference ASME Congress Professional Affiliations Member, Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), 2002-present. Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2004-present. Member, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), 2004-present. Member, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB), 2005-present. 6

7 Graduate Students Current Past Sayantan Bhattacharya, Ph.D. Student, 2011-present. Yi Wang, Ph.D. Student, 2011-present. Yun Liu, Ph.D. Student, 2011-present. Eric Anderson, Ph.D. Student, 2011-present. Jesse Roll, M.S.(continue to Ph.D.) student 2010-present. Jian Zhang, Ph.D. Student, 2010-present. Giovanni Barbera, Ph.D. Student, 2009-present. Bo Cheng, Ph.D. Student, 2009-present. Di Xu, M.S. Student, 2011-present. Yi Qin, M.S.(continue to Ph.D.) Student, 2011-present. Steve Musick, M.S.(continue to Ph.D.) Student, 2010-present. Qingfeng Huang, Ph.D Zheng Hu, Ph.D Liang Zhao, Ph.D Perry Parks, M.S Bo Cheng, M.S Lijuan Pi, M.S Chris DiLeo, M.S Parasar Kodati, M.S Publications (*=corresponding author; all manuscripts are available upon request) Book Chapters 1. Z. Hu and X. Deng*, A Flight Strategy for Intelligent Aerial Vehicles Learned from Dragonflies, in Aerial Vehicles, ISBN , Pages , P. Kodati and X. Deng*, Bio-inspired Robotic Fish with Multiple Fins, in Underwater Vehicles, ISBN , Pages ,

8 Journal Articles 1. B. Cheng, S. Sane, G. Barbera, D. Troolin, T. Strand, and X. Deng*, Three-Dimensional Flow Visualization and Vorticity Dynamics in Revolving Wings, Experiments in Fluids, Revision submitted. 2. Y. Liu, B. Cheng, and X. Deng*, An Application of Smoke Wire Visualization on a Hovering Insect Wing, Journal of Visualization, submitted. 3. Z. Hu and X. Deng*, Aerodynamic Interactions of Forewing and Hindwing in a Hovering Dragonfly: Force Measurements and PIV Results, Royal Society Interface, submitted. 4. Z. Hu and X. Deng*, Design and Performance of an Insect Inspired High Frequency Flapping Wing Robot, IEEE/ASME Transaction on Mechatronics, submitted. 5. B. Cheng and X. Deng*, Neural Adaptive Control for Flight Stabilization in Flying Insect and Robots, Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics, vol.24, no. 4,pp , B. Cheng and X. Deng*, Translational and Rotational Damping of Flapping Flight and Its Dynamics and Stability at Hovering, IEEE Transaction on Robotics, vol. 27, number 5, Pages , B. Cheng, X. Deng* and T. Hedrick, The Mechanics and Control of Pitching Maneuvers in a Freely Flying Hawk Moth Manduca Sexta, Journal of Experimental Biology, 214, Pages , 2011.(2011 JEB Outstanding Paper Prize Finalist). 8. L. Zhao, S. Sane and X. Deng*, Modulation of Leading Edge Vorticity on the Aerodynamic Forces in Flexible Flapping Wings, Journal of Bioinspiration and Biomimetics, in 6(3), art. no , L. Zhao, Q. Huang, X. Deng*, and S. Sane, Aerodynamic effects of flexibility in flapping wings, in Journal of Royal Society Interface, Volume 7, Issue 44, Pages , B. Cheng, S. Fry, Q. Huang, and X. Deng*, Aerodynamic damping during rapid flight maneuvers in the fruit fly Drosophila, Journal of Experimental Biology, Volume: 213, Issue: 4, Pages: , T. Hedrick*, B. Cheng and X. Deng*, Wingbeat Time and Scaling of Passive, Rotational Damping in Flapping Flight, in Science, Vol no. 5924, pp , L. Zhao and X. Deng*, Power distribution in the hovering flight of the hawk moth Manduca sexta, in Journal of Bioinspiration and Biomimetics, 4(4), art. no , C. DiLeo and X. Deng*, Design and Experiments on a Dragonfly-inspired Robot, in Advanced Robotics, Volume 23, Issue: 7-8, Pages , D. Campolo*, G. Barbera, L. Schenato, L. Pi, X. Deng and E. Gugliellmelli, Attitude Stabilization of a Biologically Inspired Robotic Housefly via Dynamic Multimodal Attitude Estimation, Advanced Robotics, Volume: 23, Issue: 15, Pages , D. Campolo*, L. Schenato, L. Pi, X. Deng and E. Gugliellmelli, Attitude Estimation of a Biologically Inspired Robotic Housefly via Multimodal Sensor Fusion, in Advanced Robotics, Volume 23, Issue: 7-8, Pages ,

9 16. P. Kodati, A. Winn, J. Hinkle and X. Deng*, Micro Autonomous Robotic Ostraciiform: Stability, Hydrodynamics and Prototype Development, in IEEE Transaction on Robotics, Volume 24, issue 1, Page , X. Deng, L. Schenato, W. Wu and S. Sastry*, Flapping Flight for Biomimetic Robotic Insects, I: System Modeling, in IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Volume 22, No. 4, Pages , X. Deng, L. Schenato and S. Sastry*, Flapping Flight for Biomimetic Robotic Insects, II: Flight Control, in IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Volume 22, No.4, Pages , Peer-reviewed Conference Papers 1. J. Roll, B. Cheng and X. Deng*, Modeling and Optimization of an Electromagnetic Actuator for Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicles, Submitted to IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 13). 2. B. Cheng, J. Roll and X. Deng*, Design and Experiments of an Electromagnetic Actuator for Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicles, Submitted to IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 13). 3. J. Zhang, X. Deng* and B. Yao, Resonant Drive of Flapping Wing with Closed-loop Motor Control, Submitted to IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 13). 4. P. Parks, Z. Hu, B. Cheng and X. Deng*, Translational Damping of Flapping Cicada Wings, submitted to the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots (IROS 11), Pages , San Francisco, CA, G. Barbera and X. Deng*, Attitude Control for a Pectoral Fin Actuated Bio-inspired Robotic Fish, proceeding of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 11), Pages , Shanghai, China, May L. Zhao and X. Deng*, Trailing Edge Flexion Influences Leading Edge Vortices and Aerodynamic Forces in Flapping Wings, in proceeding of the 49th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition (AIAA 11), AIAA , Orlando, FL, January Z. Hu, B. Cheng and X. Deng*, Lift Generation and Flow Measurements of a Robotic Insect, in proceeding of the 49th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition (AIAA 11), AIAA , Orlando, FL, January B. Cheng and X. Deng*, Mathematical Modeling of Near-Hover Insect Flight Dynamics, proceeding of ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference (DSCC 10), Pages , Boston, MA, September B. Cheng and X. Deng*, Near-Hover Dynamics and Attitude Stabilization of an Insect Model, proceeding of Invited Session on the Control of Nano Aerial Vehicles, American Control Conference (ACC 10), Pages 39-44, Baltimore,June

10 10. H. Zheng, S. Schaeffer, R. McCauley and X. Deng*, Aerodynamics of Dragonfly Flight and Robotic Design, in the Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 09), Pages , Kobe, Japan, May B. Cheng, S. Fry, Q. Huang, W. Dickson, M. Dickinson and X. Deng*, Turning Dynamics and Passive Damping in Flapping Flight, in the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 09), Pages , Kobe, Japan, May L. Zhao, Q. Huang, S. Sane, and X. Deng*, The effect of chord-wise flexibility on the aerodynamic force generation of flapping wings: experimental studies, in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 09), Pages , Kobe, Japan, May D. Campolo*, L. Schenato, L. Pi, X. Deng and E. Guglielmelli, Multimodal Sensor Fusion for Attitude Estimation of Micromechanical Flying Insects: a Geometric Approach, in Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 08), Pages , Nice, France, September C. DiLeo and X. Deng*, Experiments and Prototype Development of a Dragonfly-Inspired Robot, in Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 07), Pages , San Diego, CA, October P. Kodati and X. Deng*, Micro Autonomous Robotic Oscitraciiform: Design and Fabrication, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation(ICRA 07), Pages , Rome, Italy, P. Kodati and X. Deng*, Towards Body Shape Design of a Hydrodynamically Stable Robotic Boxfish, in Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 06), Pages , Beijing, China P. Kodati and X. Deng*, Experimental Studies on the Hydrodynamics of a Ostraciiform Caudal Fin, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 06), Pages , Beijing, China X. Deng* and S. Avadhanula, Biomimetic Underwater Microrobotic Boxfish with Oscillating Fin Propulsion: System Design and Force Measurements, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 05), Pages , Barcelona, Spain, August X. Deng, L. Schenato, and S. Sastry*, Model Identification and Attitude Control for a Micromechanical Flying Insect Including Thorax and Sensor Models, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 03), Pages , Taipei, Taiwan, September 2003.(Best Student Paper Award Finalist). 20. X. Deng, L. Schenato and S. Sastry*, System Identification and Control for a Micromechanical Flying Insect in Hover, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics, and Vision (ICARCV 02), Singapore, Pages , December L. Schenato, X. Deng and S. Sastry*, Hovering Flight for a Micromechanical Flying Insect: Modeling and Robust Control Synthesis, in Proceedings of the 15th IFAC World Congress on Automatic Control (IFAC 02), Bacelona, Spain, July,

11 22. X. Deng, L. Schenato and S. Sastry*, Hovering Flight Control of a Micromechanical Flying Insect, in Proceedings of the 40th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 01), Pages , Orlando, Florida, December L. Schenato, X. Deng and S. Sastry*, Flight Control System for Micromechanical Flying Insect: Architecture and Implementation, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 01), Pages , Seoul, South Korea, May L. Schenato, X. Deng, W. Wu and S. Sastry*, Virtual Insect Flight Simulator (VIFS): A Software Testbed for Insect Flight, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 01), Pages , Seoul, South Korea, May Conference Abstract with Presentations 1. S. Frank, B. Cheng, G. Barbera and X. Deng*, Vortex Tilting and the Enhancement of Spanwise Flow in Flapping Wings, in Proceeding of the American Physical Society 64th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics (APS Fluids 11), Volume: 55, Number: 6, Baltimore, MD, November, B. Cheng and X. Deng*, Rotational flapping counter torque in insect flight, in Proceeding of the Annual Meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB 10), Volume: 50, Pages: E27, Boston, MA, January, L. Zhao, X. Deng* and S. Sane, Aerodynamics of flapping wings with fluttering trailing edges, in Proceeding of the American Physical Society 63nd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics (APS Fluids 10), Volume: 55, Number: 6, Long Beach, CA, November, Z. Hu and X. Deng*, Aerodynamics of high frequency flapping wings, in Proceeding of the American Physical Society 63nd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics (APS Fluids 10), Volume: 55, Number: 6, Long Beach, CA, November, B. Cheng and X. Deng*, Aerodynamic damping during body translation in animal flight: modeling and experimental results of flapping counter force (FCF), in Proceeding of the American Physical Society 63nd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics (APS Fluids 10), Volume: 55, Number: 6, Long Beach, CA, November, Z. Hu and X. Deng*, Aerodynamics of Dragonfly in Hover: Force measurements, in Proceeding of the American Physical Society 62nd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics (APS Fluids 09), Volume: 54, Number: 19, Minneapolis, Minnesota, November, Z. Hu and X. Deng*, Aerodynamics of Dragonfly in Hover: PIV results, in Proceeding of the American Physical Society 62nd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics (APS Fluids 09), Volume: 54, Number: 19, Minneapolis, Minnesota, November, B. Cheng and X. Deng*, Flapping counter torque (FCT) in animal flight: Experimental results and mathematical models, in Proceeding of the American Physical Society 62nd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics (APS Fluids 09), Volume: 54, Number: 19, Minneapolis, Minnesota, November,

12 9. H. Dai, H. Luo and X. Deng, Flapping counter force - a unique flight stabilizing mechanism enabled by flapping wings, in Proceeding of the American Physical Society 62nd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics (APS Fluids 09), Volume: 54, Number: 19, Minneapolis, Minnesota, November, Z. Hu and X. Deng*, Aerodynamic Effect of Forewing-Hindwing Interactions in Hovering and Forward Flight of Dragonfly, in Proceeding of the Annual Meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB 09), Volume: 49, Pages: E79, Boston, MA, January, T. Hedrick, X. Deng* and B. Cheng, Scaling of passive damping and maneuverability in flying animals, in Proceeding of the Annual Meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB 09), Volume: 49, Pages: E72, Boston, MA, January, B. Cheng, S. Fry, Q. Huang, W. Dickson, M. Dickinson and X. Deng*, Dynamics and control of turning during saccades in fruit fly drosophila, in Proceeding of the Annual Meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB 09), Volume: 49, Pages: E31, Boston, MA, January, L. Zhao, Q. Huang, X. Deng* and S. Sane, Aerodynamic effects of wing flexibility in flapping flight, in Proceeding of the Annual Meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB 09), Volume: 49, Pages: E190, Boston, MA, January, P. Kodati, C. DiLeo and X. Deng*, Biological and Bio-inspired Locomotion, poster and presentation, The International Meetings of Adaptive Motion of Animals and Machines (AMAM 08), Cleveland, OH, July D. Campolo, L. Schenato and X. Deng*, Bio-inspired Sensor Fusion Algorithm for Robotic Insects, poster, The International Meetings of Flying Insects and Robots, Ascona, Switzerland, July Invited Seminars Invited Seminar, Institute of Fluid Mechanics, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China, 8/14/2012. Invited Seminar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnic University, China, 8/3/2012. Department Seminar, School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 9/20/2012. Invited Seminar, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 11/21/2011. Department Seminar, Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, 10/7/2011. Department Seminar, Entomology Department, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 01/14/2010. Invited Seminar, Lockeed Martin, Cherry Hill, NJ, 08/11/

13 Invited Seminar, 2009 NASA Robotics Academy, College Park, MD, 07/07/2009. Department Seminar, Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champain, 05/07/2009. Department Seminar, Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, 05/05/2009. Department Seminar, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Cornell University, 02/04/09. Department Seminar, Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 10/30/08. Department Seminar, Mechanical Engineering, George Washington University, 10/22/08. Minta Martin Distinguished Aerospace Seminar, Aerospace Engineering, University of Maryland at College Park, 10/17/08. Department Seminar, Mechanical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, 10/06/08. Department Seminar, Mechanical Engineering, City University of New York, 09/11/08. Invited Seminar, Institute for Genome Research, Chinese Academy of Science, 11/20/06. References Available upon request 13