Michael C. Yip BSc, MSc, PhD

Michael Yip joined the Electrical and Computer Science department at UCSD in Fall 2015 after receiving his Ph.D. from Stanford University. At Stanford, he led research efforts in designing and controlling highly-dexterous and flexible robots in complex environments such as the beating heart. His work has been nominated and has won best paper awards at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), the largest of its kind.

He has also been a visiting researcher at Harvard University and MIT in the area of surgical robotics and tissue engineering, respectively. He was an Imagineer with Walt Disney Research designing next-generation animatronics. He holds a Bachelor of Mechatronics Engineering from the University of Waterloo, and a Master of Electrical Engineering from the University of British Columbia.