Kevin Lynch to Receive Leadership Award from IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
Lynch is being recognized for his innovative contributions to conferences and journals, to broadly accessible education, and to research in robotic manipulation, multirobot systems, and human-robot systems
Northwestern Engineering’s Kevin Lynch will receive the George Saridis Leadership Award in Robotics and Automation from the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society.
Lynch, professor of mechanical engineering and the director of the Center for Robotics and Biosystems, will formally accept the honor in May at the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in Philadelphia. First introduced in 2008, the award recognizes outstanding individual contributions that benefit the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society.
Nominees are judged based on exceptional leadership and dedication that result in the professional growth of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, and quality and significance of leadership that benefits the robotics and automation community.
Lynch is being recognized for his innovative contributions to conferences and journals, to broadly accessible education, and to research in robotic manipulation, multirobot systems, and human-robot systems. His leadership in conferences and journals includes terms as editor-in-chief of the conference editorial board of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation and as editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics. His contributions to broadly accessible education include the popular textbook Modern Robotics (MIT Press 2017), which Lynch made freely downloadable to lower barriers to access. Accompanying the textbook are free software, approximately 100 YouTube lectures, and six Coursera courses that have been taken by thousands of students around the world.
The mission of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society is to foster the development and facilitate the exchange of scientific and technological knowledge in robotics and automation that benefits members, the profession, and humanity. The IEEE is the world’s largest technical professional organization.