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Dr Zac Manchester, Assistant Professor - The Robotics Institute
Carnegie Mellon University

Zac Manchester is an assistant professor of robotics at Carnegie Mellon University. He holds a Ph.D. in aerospace engineering and a B.S. in applied physics from Cornell University. Zac was a postdoc in the Agile Robotics Lab at Harvard University and previously worked at Stanford, NASA Ames Research Center and Analytical Graphics, Inc. He received a NASA Early Career Faculty Award in 2018, a Google Faculty Research Award in 2019, numerous best paper awards, and has led four NASA-funded satellite missions. His research interests include motion planning, control, and numerical optimization, particularly with application to small, low-cost spacecraft.


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