Shivesh Kumar

Shivesh Kumar is an Assistant Professor in Dynamics and Control of Mechanical Systems at the Dynamics Division of Department of Mechanical and Maritime Sciences at Chalmers University of Technology. His research interests include kinematics, dynamics and control of robots with a pursuit to develop animal-like physical/athletic intelligence. He also works as a part-time Senior Researcher at the Robotics Innovation Center, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence in Bremen, Germany where he maintains an advisory relationship with the Advanced AI Team: Team Mechanics & Control and the Underactuated Robotics Lab. He is an associate co-chair of the IEEE-RAS Technical Committee on Model Based Optimization for Robotics. He obtained his PhD degree (Dr. rer. nat.) from Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Bremen in November 2019. Previously, he holds a Masters degree in Control Engineering, Robotics, and Applied Informatics with specialization in Advanced Robotics from Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France in 2015 and Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from National Institute of Technology Karnataka, India in 2013.