Michael Yip, Ph.D.
Director, Advanced Robotics and Controls Lab (ARCLAB)
Director, UCSD Medical Robotics Collaboratory
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Affiliate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
Affiliate Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Affiliate Professor, Artificial Intelligence Group
Short Bio
Michael Yip is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC San Diego,Director of the Advanced Robotics and Controls Laboratory (ARCLab), and Director of the Healthcare and Medical Robotics Collaboratory at the UCSD Contextual Robotics Institute.
His research group at UCSD has received several best paper awards and nominations at top robotics and AI conferences, and he has been recognized by the NSF CAREER award, NIH Trailblazer award, and as an IEEE Robotics and Automation Soceity Distinguished Lecturer. Several of his research projects have led to the founding of startups, and he is an advisor and board member on several companies. He was named the Faculty Innovator of the Year at UC San Diego in 2024 and elected into the U.S. National Academy of Inventors.
Dr. Yip was previously a Research Associate with Disney Research in 2014 and a Resident Faculty at Amazon Robotics in 2018. He received a B.Sc. in Mechatronics Engineering from the University of Waterloo, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of British Columbia, and a Ph.D. in Bioengineering from Stanford University.
Contact
Franklin Antonio Hall Rm 3202
(858) 822-4778
yip@ucsd.edu
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