Luis Sentis

Luis Sentis is a Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also a General Dynamics Endowed Faculty Fellow, and an executive member of UT Austin's Good Systems. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. He was a La Caixa Foundation Fellow while at Stanford. In Austin, he leads the Human Centered Robotics Laboratory, a laboratory focusing on control and design of humanoid robots, application of robots to in space and naval domains, and studies on community embedded robotics. He is co-founder of Apptronik Inc, the UT Robotics Consortium, and the Portfolio Graduate Program on Ethical AI. He was the UT Austin's Lead for DARPA's Robotics Challenge with NASA Johnson Space Center where won the NASA Elite Team Award. His research has been funded by the US Office of Naval Research, NASA, National Science Foundations, US Army, US Special Operations, US Air Force, and DARPA.