Metin Sitti

• Since 2017 Honorary Professor, University of Stuttgart, SimTech
• Since 2014 Director, Physical Intelligence Department, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, Germany
• 2002 – 2016 Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics Institute (courtesy), Electrical and Computer Engineering (courtesy), and Biomedical Engineering (courtesy), Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Pittsburgh, PA
• 2002 Lecturer, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, CA
• 1999 – 2002 Research Scientist, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, CA
• 1996 – 1999 Research Assistant, Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
• 1994 – 1996 Research Engineer, Marmara Research Center, Robotics Department, Kocaeli, Turkey

Qualification Indicators

• Selected Honors and Awards: IEEE Fellow (2014)
• Best Poster Award in the Adhesion Conference (2014)
• IEEE/ASME Best Mechatronics Paper Award (2014)
• Best Poster Award in the Workshop on Enabling Nanofabrication for Rapid Innovation (2013)
• First Prize in the World RoboCup Micro-Robotics competition (2013)
• IBM Smarter Planet Award (2012)
• SPIE Nanoengineering Pioneer Award (2011)
• Best Paper Award in the IEEE/RSJ Intelligent Robots and Systems Conference (2009 and 1998)
• National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2005)
• Best Biomimetics Paper Award in the IEEE Robotics and Biomimetics Conference (2004)
• Best Video Award in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Conference (2002)
• 8 issued patents