Josh Bongard
Appearance
Josh Bongard | |
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Born | April 17, 1974 |
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Alma mater | McMaster University University of Sussex University of Zurich |
Known for | Self-modeling robots, Xenobots |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Robotics, Artificial Intelligence |
Institutions | Cornell University University of Vermont |
Doctoral advisor | Rolf Pfeifer |
Josh Bongard is a professor at the
PECASE
awardee.
He attended
Computer Science from McMaster University ('97), Canada, his master's degree from the University of Sussex, UK, and his PhD from the University of Zurich (1999–2003), Switzerland. He served as a postdoctoral associate under Hod Lipson in the Computational Synthesis Laboratory at Cornell University
in the United States from 2003 to 2006.
He is the co-author of the popular science book entitled "How the Body Shapes the Way We Think: A New View of Intelligence",
ISBN 978-3-640-81221-9
.
In 2007, he was named to the
TR35 as one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 35.[1]
Selected publications
Kriegman, S., Blackiston, D., Levin, M., and Bongard, J. (2020) A scalable pipeline for designing reconfigurable organisms. .
Bongard J. (2011) Morphological change in machines accelerates the evolution of robust behavior. .
Bongard J. and Lipson H. (2007) Automated reverse engineering of nonlinear dynamical systems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104(24): 9943-9948.
Bongard, J., Zykov, V., Lipson, H. (2006) Resilient machines through continuous self-modeling. Science, 314: 1118-1121.
References
- Technology Review. 2007. Retrieved August 15, 2011.