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Atwater Kent Laboratories, 229
Phone: +1-508-831-6427
Fax: +1-508-831-5491
tpadir@wpi.edu

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Taskin Padir

• Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
• Affiliated with:
  • Robotics Engineering

My role at WPI is to help build the Robotics Engineering Program in collaboration with faculty from the Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, and Electrical and Computer Engineering departments. I am an electrical and computer engineer by training. My research interests include robotics and control, specifically cooperative control of autonomous robots, adaptive control systems, mathematical modeling, and optimization. The Robotics Engineering Program at WPI has great appeal to both students and faculty because robots are cool. My students are interested in learning more about the principles and technology that lead to practical robots. Our robots have three main features: they can sense, compute, and actuate. They also exist in the physical world. Electrical and computer engineers play an important role in designing capable robots by developing new technologies for more effective batteries as power sources, more efficient motors as actuators, more enabling sensors as intelligence and more powerful microprocessors as controllers. WPI is the perfect school to start this multidisciplinary robotics engineering program. Our students are hardworking and eager to learn. The size of the school makes it possible for students to receive personal attention with their studies from WPI’s dedicated faculty and staff. In my free time, I enjoy solving crossword puzzles, listening to classical music, spending time outdoors, and, most important, building incredible structures out of Legos with my son.