Ludovic Righetti

Ludovic Righetti is jointly appointed in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at the Tandon School of Engineering of New York University. He co-created and co-directs the Center for Robotics and Embodied Intelligence, and leads the Machines in Motion Laboratory, where his research focuses on the planning and control of movements for autonomous robots, with emphasis on legged locomotion and manipulation. He is broadly interested in decision-making, automatic control, optimization, applied dynamical systems, machine learning for physical systems, and societal implications.