Chirikjian, Gregory S.

Gregory Scott Chirikjian (born 1966) is an American roboticist and applied mathematician, primarily working in the field of kinematics, motion planning, computer vision, group theory applications in engineering, and the mechanics of macromolecules. A longtime professor of Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, he recently served as the chair and professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Delaware, and is now a professor in the Robotics Department at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence in Abu Dhabi. He is known for his theoretical contributions to the kinematics of hyper-redundant (snake-like and continuum) robots and stochastic methods on Lie groups.