Metin Sitti Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics Institute , Carnegie Mellon University  since Sept. 2002 Research Scientist and Lectrurer , Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Robotics Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley, Nov. 1999-August 2002 Ph.D., University of Tokyo , Department of Electrical Engineering,  Institute of Industrial Science , Intelligent Mechatronics Laboratory , Tokyo, Japan, Sept. 1999 M.Sc., B.Sc., Bogazici University , Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey, Sept. 1994, July 1992

Teaching:

Spring 2003 , 24779-A: Micro/Nano-Robotics  
Fall 2003, Mathematical Techniques for Mechanical Engineers: 24-701
Spring 2004 , 24779-A: Micro/Nano-Robotics  

Some Coming Projects:

• Nanomanufacturing:
• 3D Nanoassembly using Nanoprobes and Optical Tweezers
• Precision Nanomanipulation using Parallel Nanoprobes
• Synthetic Gecko Foot-Hairs as Dry Adhesives
• Surgical Microrobots
• WaalBots: Revolutionary Miniature Space Robots

Some Past Projects:

• Micromechanical Flying Insect Project, UC Berkeley
• Nanofabrication of Biomimetic Gecko Foot-Hairs Project , UC Berkeley
• Tele-Nanorobotics Project, University of Tokyo, Japan

Some Technical Activities:

NSF Workshop on Nanoscale Systems, Dynamics and Control

Students:

Graduate Students:

• Burak Aksak , MSc
• Bahareh Behkam , PhD 
• Eugene Cheung , MSc
  
• Matthew DiGioia , MSc-Course
• Mike Murphy , MSc
• Gaurav Shah , MSc
  
• Amrinder Nain , PhD

Graduate and Undergraduate Researchers:

• Jackie Cheng , Senior
  
• Ben Chou , MSc-Course
  
• Jason Boxerman , Senior
  
• Ezgi Ergec , Senior
  
• Mitch Kent , Senior
  
• Innam Lee , MSc-Course
  
• Bernice Ma , Senior
  
• Gordon Christopher , MSc-Course
  
• Kwon Joon Son , MSc-Course
  
• Afshin Tafazzoli , PhD
  

• Wolfgang Vogl , Visiting (Tech. Univ. of Munich)

News (updated, 12/5/01)

CV (updated, 10/02)

Publications (updated, 11/02)

Interests

Links (updated, 11/15/01)  

My Departmental Home Pages:

MechE: http://www.me.cmu.edu/people/faculty/sitti.htm
RI: http://www.ri.cmu.edu/people/sitti_metin.html
UCB (old): http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/~sitti/

Work Address:

Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 315 Scaife Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
Tel:     412-268-3632
Fax:    412-268-3348
E-Mail: msitti@andrew.cmu.edu

Home Address:

5533 Ellsworth Ave., #302, Pittsburgh, PA 15232
Phone: 412-802-7954

Last update: 2/4/2003