Dr. Dennis W. Hong B.S., M.S., Ph.D.

Dennis Hong received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1994), his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University (1999, 2002). Dr. Hong also has a number of patents for novel robot locomotion mechanisms and devices for medical applications. TEAM DARwIn for RoboCup 2007 where he served as the advisor, was the first and only team from the US ever to qualify for the RoboCup humanoid division, and TEAM Victor Tango for the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge (an autonomous vehicle race in the urban environment) where he served as the co-team leader, won third place with a cash award of $500,000. His senior design teams have been winning top prizes year after year at various design competitions. He is also a serious gourmet chef and a magician performing annual charity magic shows and lectures on the science of magic.

What he offers you

Named as one of Popular Science's Brilliant 10, Dr. Hong's research expertise lies in the area of novel robot locomotion mechanisms, design and analysis of mechanical systems, kinematics and robot mechanism design, humanoid robots, and autonomous systems. He expertly guides his audiences through his projects on robot locomotion and mechanism design at prestigious events worldwide including TEDxNASA in 2010.

How he presents

Dennis Hong is a captivating, engaging and passionate speaker, who enthuses about his pioneering scientific breakthroughs.

Languages

He speaks English and Korean.

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• My Seven Species of Robot
• The Humanoid, Soccer-Playing DARwIn
• The Cliff-Gripping CLIMBeR
• Bioinspiration
• Roll, Crawl, Walk, Climb, and Jump: Robot Locomotion Inspired by Nature and Beyond

• 2008
  Won the Faculty Fellow Award
• 2007
  He was the inventor of the three-legged walking robot 'STriDER' and the 'whole skin locomotion' inspired by amoeboid motility mechanisms, and pioneered in generating and utilizing everting motion and nutating motion for locomotion in soft body robots. His work on this area was awarded with the prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation, Best Paper Award at the 13th International Conference on Advanced Robotics and both the Biomimicry Award
• Awarded Outstanding Assistant Professor Award at the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech
• 2005
  ASME Freudenstein / GM Young Investigator Award at the 29th ASME Mechanisms and Robotics Conference
• Selected as a NASA Summer Faculty Fellow at JPL