John R. Beaver Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Tufts University
Professor Messner is the John R. Beaver Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Tufts University. He joined Tufts in 2012 after more than 19 years in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie where he also had courtesy appointments in Electrical and Computer Engineering and in the Robotics Institute. He was a member of Carnegie Mellon teams competing in the DARPA Grand Challenge in 2004 and 2005. He is the co-developer of the web-based Control Tutorials for MATLAB® and Simulink®. He is a Fellow of the AAAS and the ASME and a winner the Education Award from ASME's Dynamic Systems and Controls Division.
Professor Messner's research interests include automatic control systems with an emphasis on applications to data storage systems, robotic systems, microfluidics, and biological systems and instrumentation. He is avid swimmer and a big fan of Italian cappuccinos.
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