Education:
Ph.D. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1998
M.S. Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, 1994
B.A. Dartmouth College, 1993
Areas of Expertise:
Robotics, Microrobotics and Control Systems, MEMS, Micromanufacturing (Microsystems Assembly and Packaging).
Background:
Dan Popa is presently an Assistant Professor with the Electrical Engineering Department and the Automation & Robotics Research Institute at The University of Texas at Arlington.
He received a BA in Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science and a MS in Electrical Engineering, both from Dartmouth College where he was a Montgomery Fellow from 1990 to 1993. He received a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1998, focusing on control of nonholonomic systems and robots. He then joined the Center for Automation Technologies at RPI, where he held the rank of Senior Research Scientist until 2004. While at Rensselaer and at UT Arlington, Dr. Popa led and continues to lead numerous projects sponsored by government agencies and industry in the areas of robotics, control and microsystems assembly and packaging.
Dr. Popa has a broad experience base, including the modeling and simulation of non-rigid materials such as human tissue or polymers, the design, characterization, modeling and control of MEMS actuators, the design of parallel and multiscale assembly architectures, the control of mobile sensor networks, the development of new systems level processes for hermetic sealing, wafer level bonding, and 3D wafer integration.
He is the recipient of several
prestigious awards as a member of IEEE, ACIS, ASME,
SME, and IMAPS, and the author of over 50 refereed
papers and book chapters.
Webpage:
http://arri.uta.edu/popa
Contact:
popa@arri.uta.edu |
