Self-Organizing Systems Research Group
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Computer Science
Harvard University

Radhika Nagpal
Assistant Professor
Computer Science
33 Oxford Street, MD 235,
Cambridge, MA
Harvard University

News and Media (Photos, Movies, etc)

(we're NOT on the cover)

Microsoft Faculty Summit, 2005

Lego Robots on CNet

May 2008: Chih-han Yu and Radhika's paper at AAMAS 2008 is nominated for the Best Student Paper Award.
Dec 2007: Dan Yamins successfully defends his thesis. Congrats to Dr. Yamins!!!
July 2007: Radhika and the SSR Robots (lego, chain, and even toys!) get footage in the Microsoft New Faculty Fellowship Video.
Spring 2007: The Self-Adapting Modular Robot (and Radhika) get featured in the Faculty Profile in SEAS Newsletter. Radhika also gets the NSF CAREER Award (SEAS homepage, Gazette Article), 2007.
Oct 2006: Ankit Patel wins the "Best Poster Award" at the Frontiers of Tissue Engineering Symposium, hosted by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
Aug 2006: "Emergent Geometric Order in Epithelial Tissues" finally appeared in Nature Aug 31,2006!! (and on the DEAS homepage). We also received a fabulous 2-page review in Cell by Jeff Axelrod (Stanford).
July 2006: We (Valente, Werfel, Nagpal) recently demonstrated the LEGO Mindstorm robots doing collective construction at the Robot Exhibition at AAAI 2006 and are featured on CNet and Wired News.
Aug 2005: Our paper on robot swarm formations was featured in Electronic Design's commentary on AAAI 2005, under "interesting sessions" :-).
May 2005: Radhika received the Microsoft New Faculty Fellowship Award. She was one of 5 other fellows selected from a pool of 110 nominees representing universities across the United States. (PR news, the New York Times Advertisement, an interview on India New England)

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