Sarah Bergbreiter

Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering and ISR 2170 Glenn L. Martin Hall University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 301/405-6506 TEL 301/314-9477 FAX sarahb@umd.edu Personal home page News stories about Dr. Bergbreiter

Research Interests

Microrobotics, micro-electro-mechanical systems, microactuators, soft robotics, robot locomotion, networked centimeter-scale robots, millimeter-scale power systems

Background Information

Sarah Bergbreiter joined the University of Maryland, College Park in 2008 as an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, with a joint appointment in the Institute for Systems Research. Sarah brings new skills and interests to our programs, and can help to bridge research in systems and control with research in microsystems and fabrication.

She received her B.S.E. degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University in 1999. After a short introduction to the challenges of sensor networks at a small startup company, she received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley in 2004 and 2007 with a focus on microrobotics. She received the DARPA Young Faculty Award in 2008 and the NSF CAREER Award in 2011 for her research on engineering robotic systems down to sub-millimeter size scales. She also received the Best Conference Paper Award at IEEE ICRA 2010 for her work incorporating new materials into microrobotics.

Links

Micro Robotics Lab
Mechanical Engineering Department
Intelligent Servosystems Laboratory

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