Associate Professor
Education
Ph.D., Brown University, 2002
M.S., Brown University, 1996
M.Sc., University of Edinburgh, 1992
B.Sc., University of Dundee, 1991
Biography
Professor Smart is co-director of the Media and Machines Laboratory in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. He also co-chairs the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society committee on Competitions and Challenges.
Research
Professor Smart's research interests span the areas of mobile robotics, machine learning, and brain-computer interfaces. His current work looks at how humans and robots can interact more effectively, at learning gait controllers for complex, high degree-of-freedom robot systems, and at controlling robotic prostheses using direct brain input.