Ian Scheffler
Growing up, Pratik Chaudhari, Assistant Professor in Electrical and Systems Engineering (ESE) and member of the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Laboratory, just wanted to build robots.
Today, Chaudhari’s lab at Penn Engineering draws on disciplines as diverse as physics and neuroscience to understand the process of learning itself. “I would be very happy as a researcher if I could build a machine that can do most things that your pet dog can do,” Chaudhari says.
His ultimate goal is to discover the principles that underlie learning in both artificial and biological systems, so that engineers can harness those principles in the machines they design.
As a teacher, Chaudhari wants to help students understand not just today’s AI technologies, but also the foundational ideas that will underpin tomorrow’s systems
To learn more about Chaudhari’s research and teaching, please visit Penn Engineering’s AI site.