Gregory S. ChirikjianProfessor Mechanical Engineering Secondary Appointment: Computer Science, Applied Mathematics and Statistics custer.me.jhu.edu (lab) Hackerman 116 (office) 410-516-7127 (office) gregc@jhu.edu (primary) Staff Contact: Elisa Ahmanson elisa@cs.jhu.edu 410-516-0740 ResearcherID webpage >> |
Education
| Ph.D. 1992, California Institute of Technology |
| B.A. 1988, The Johns Hopkins University |
| B.S. 1988, The Johns Hopkins University |
| M.S.E. 1988, The Johns Hopkins University |
Experience
| 2001: Professor, Mechanical Engineering (with secondary appointments in CS, Applied Math + Statistics) |
| 2004-2007: Department Chair- an experience that I encourage all of my senior colleagues to try. I look forward to my next three-year rotation in approximtely 20 years from now. |
| 1997-2001: Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University |
| 1992-1997: Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University |
| 1992-0: Joint Appointment, Department of Computer Science, The Johns Hopkins University |
| 1991-0: Teleoperator Performance Test Engineer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| 1988-0: Intern, United States House of Representatives |
| Self-replicating robotic systems |
| developed theory for 'hyper- redundant' (snakelike) robot motion planning |
| designs and builds hyper-redundant robotic manipulator arms |
| Conformational Statistics of Biological Macromolecules |
| Computational Structural Biology (in particular, computational mechanics of large proteins) |
| Applied Mathematics (Applications of Group Theory in Engineering) |
Journal Articles
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Wolfe, K.C., Hastings, W.A., Dutta, S., Long, A., Shapiro, B.A., Woolf, T.B., Guthold, M., Chirikjian, G.S. (2012). Multiscale Modeling of Double-Helical DNA and RNA: A Unification through Lie Groups. Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 116(29). 8556-8572. DOI » View record in Web of Science SM |
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Wolfe, K.C., Chirikjian, G.S. (2012). Quantitative Comparison of Conformational Ensembles. Entropy. 14(2). 213-232. DOI » View record in Web of Science SM |
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Chirikjian, G.S., Yan, Y. (2012). Mathematical aspects of molecular replacement. II. Geometry of motion spaces. Acta Crystallographica Section A. 68. 208-221. DOI » View record in Web of Science SM |
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Ackerman, M.K., Chirikjian, G.S., Ieee, . (2012). Hex-DMR: A Modular Robotic Test-bed for Demonstrating Team Repair. 2012 Ieee International Conference on Robotics and Automation (Icra). 4148-4153. View record in Web of Science SM |
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Park, W., Midgett, C.R., Madden, D.R., Chirikjian, G.S. (2011). A Stochastic Kinematic Model of Class Averaging in Single-Particle Electron Microscopy.. Int J Rob Res. 30(6). 730-754. DOI » |
Conference Proceedings
| Long, A.W. "The Banana Distribution isGaussian: A Localization Study with Exponential Coordinates", Robotics: Science and Systems, 2012. |
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Lee, K., Chirikjian, G. "An Autonomous Robot that Duplicates Itself from Low-complexity Components", 2010 Ieee International Conference on Robotics and Automation (Icra), 2010, pp.2771-2776. View record in Web of Science SM |
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Kutzer, M., Moses, M., Brown, C., Scheidt, D., Chirikjian, G., Armand, M. "Design of a New Independently-Mobile Reconfigurable Modular Robot", 2010 Ieee International Conference on Robotics and Automation (Icra), 2010, pp.2758-2764. View record in Web of Science SM |
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Park, W., Reed, K., Okamura, A., Chirikjian, G. "Estimation of Model Parameters for Steerable Needles", 2010 Ieee International Conference on Robotics and Automation (Icra), 2010, pp.3703-3708. View record in Web of Science SM |
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Chirikjian, G. "Information Theory on Lie Groups and Mobile Robotics Applications", 2010 Ieee International Conference on Robotics and Automation (Icra), 2010, pp.2751-2757. View record in Web of Science SM |
Awards & Honors
| 2010: IEEE Fellow |
| 2008: ASME Fellow |
| 2008 - 2009: IEEE Senior Member |
| 2000 - 2000: ASME Design Engineering Division Certificate of Appreciation |
| 1994 - 1998: Presidential Faculty Fellow |
| 1993 - 1994: NSF Young Investigator Award |
| 1993: NASA Certificate of Recognition |
| 1993: Outstanding Paper Award IEEE Robotics and Automation Conference |
| 1990 - 1992: NASA Fellow |
| 1990 - 1990: Best Student Paper Award, Proceedings 2nd International Workshop on Advances in Kinematics |
| 1988 - 1989: General Electric Fellow |
Presentations
| ``Stochastic Models in Robotics" State Engineering University of Armenia (internet lecture), December 10, 2012 |
| ``Mathematical Aspects of Molecular Replacement" Zing Conference on Mathematical and Computational Medicine, Cancun Mexico, December 2, 2012 |
| ``Stochastic Models in Robotics and Biology" University of Florida, Mechanical Engineering, Oct 2, 2012 Dept Seminar, October 2, 2012 |
| ``Stochastic Models and Lie Groups: Applications in Structural Biology" University at Buff alo, Physics Dept. Colloquium, September 28, 2012 |
| ``From Snakelike Robots to DNA: Extending the Reach of Kinematics" Naples, Italy (Invited - Keynote) 21th International Workshop on Robotics in Alpe-Adria-Danube Region (RAAD 2012), 10 - 13 September 2012: Naples, Italy, September 10, 2012 |
| ``Harmonic Analysis on Groups" Imperial College, London, Darryl Holm Group, September 9, 2012 |
| ``Total Twist in DNA" Workshop on Geometry and Topology of DNA, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, England, September 4, 2012 |
| ``Conformational Statistics of DNA" EPFL, John Maddocks Group,, August 29, 2012 |
| ``Modeling Bent DNA" Telluride Workshop on Multiscale Modeling, Telluride Colorado, July 23, 2012 |
| ``Group Theory in Design" Tianjin University, China, July 11, 2012 |
| ``Keynote" The Second ASME/IEEE International Conference on Recon gurable Mechanisms and Robots (ReMAR 2012) July 9-11, 2012 ReMAR, Tianjin, China, July 10, 2012 |
| ``Entropy and Self-Replicating Robots" UMCP, Institute for Physical Science and Technology, invited by Chris Jarzynski., February 21, 2012 |
| invited, ``Entropy and Self-Replicating Robots" Philosophical Society of Washington, December 16, 2011 |
| invited, Techno-Sciences Robotics Seminar: "Stochastic Models in Robotics," UMCP, November 18, 2011 |
| invited conference session talk ``Harmonic Analysis Meets Stochastic Geometry" SIAM Conference on Geometric and Physical Modeling, Orlando, FL, October 27, 2011 |
| invited seminar, ``Stochastic Models in Robotics and Structural Biology'' The University of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, September 13, 2011 |
| invited workshop presentation ``DNA Conformational Ensembles'' EPFL, Switzerland, August 28, 2011 |
| ``Structural Bioinformatics'' Georgetown University Medical Center, Biotechnology Program March 2011 (Invited), March 17, 2011 |
| Yan, Y., Chirikjian, G.S., ``Molecular Replacement For Multi-Domain Structures Using Packing Models," Control Number: 11-A-821-BPS, Poster Session Title: Protein Conformation, Date of Presentation: 03/08/2011, Location: Hall D, Program Number: 2032-Pos, Poster Board Number: B18, 2011 Biophysical Society Meeting, Baltimore, MD, March 5-9, 2011., March 8, 2011 |
| Park, W., Chirikjian, G.S., ``A Modified Cross Correlation Method for Reference-free Image Alignment in Single-Particle Electron Microscopy," Control Number: 11-A-946-BPS, Poster Session Title: Cryo Electron Microscopy and Reconstruction, Date of Presentation: 03/07/2011, Location: Hall D, Program Number: 1749-Pos, Poster Board Number: B659, 2011 Biophysical Society Meeting, Baltimore, MD, March 5-9, 2011., March 7, 2011 |
| Toptygin, D., Brand, L., Chirikjian, G.S., ``Global Analysis of Time-Resolved Anisotropy from Multiple Probes in a Rigid Globular Protein," Control Number: 11-A-1823-BPS, Poster Session Title: Fluorescence Spectroscopy I, Date of Presentation: 03/06/2011, Location: Hall D, Program Number: 733-Pos, Poster Board Number: B533, 2011 Biophysical Society Meeting, Baltimore, MD, March 5-9, 2011., March 7, 2011 |
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``Stochastic Models, Lie Groups, and Engineering '' Max Planck Institute, Germany (Invited), November 9, 2010 |
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``Mathematics of Biomolecular Structure and Conformation'' Johns Hopkins University, Biology Dept (Invited), October 7, 2010 |
| Coarse-Grained Models of Proteins Telluride Science Research Center, July 5, 2010 |
| Robotic Self-Replication Invited Seminar. Villanova University. 2008-12-00. (Invited), November 30, 2008 |
| Stochastic Models and Lie Groups Invited Seminar. University of Maryland at College Park (Math). 2008-12-00. (Invited), November 30, 2008 |
| Robotic Self-Replication, Self-Diagnosis and Self-Repair Keynote Lecture, DARS. Tsukuba, Japan. 2008-11-00. (Invited), October 31, 2008 |
| Stochastic Models and Lie Groups Invited Seminar. Colorado State University (Electrical Engineering). 2008-10-00. (Invited), September 30, 2008 |
| Kinematic Models of Stochastic Needles and Deformable Environments MICCAI Workshop on Needle Steering. New York City. 2008-09-00. (Invited), August 31, 2008 |
| Stochastic Models and Lie Groups Invited Seminar. New Jersey Inst. of Technology (Mathematical Sciences). 2008-09-00. (Invited), August 31, 2008 |
| Con gurational Entropy and Self-Replicating Robots Invited Seminar. Arizona State University (Physics). 2008-04-00. (Invited), March 31, 2008 |
| Conformational Statistics of DNA Invited Seminar. Rutgers University (Biochemistry). 2008-04-00. (Invited), March 31, 2008 |
| Electrostatics and Entropy Biophysical Evening Series. JHU (Remsen Hall). 2008-04-00. (Invited), March 31, 2008 |
| From Snakelike Robots to DNA Mechanics Keynote Lecture, Conference on Mechanics of Slender Structures (MoSS). UMBC. 2008-04-00. (Invited), March 31, 2008 |
| Applications of Euclidean-Group Representation Theory Invited Seminar. UMBC Math Dept. 2008-03-00. (Invited), February 29, 2008 |
| Conformational Transitions in Proteins Invited Seminar. University of Wisconsin, Madison (Biochem). 2008-02-00. (Invited), January 31, 2008 |
| Statistical Mechanics of DNA Invited Seminar. University of Wisconsin, Madison (Math). 2008-02-00. (Invited), January 31, 2008 |
| Mathematical models of folded and unfolded protein ensembles Invited Seminar. (IMA) . University of Minnesota. 2008-01-00. (Invited), December 31, 2007 |
| Noncommutative Harmonic Analysis in Engineering Invited Seminar. NTNU, Trondheim, Norway, (Dept of Cybernetics). 2008-01-00. (Invited), December 31, 2007 |
| Kinematics of Biomolecular Machines Indo-US Workshop on Protein Conformation and Spatial Kinematics. IISc, Bangalore, India. 2007-12-07. (Invited), December 7, 2007 |
| Self-Replicating Robots: What We Have Learned From Physical Prototypes Dept. Seminar, MAE Dept. University of Florida. 2007-11-13. (Invited), November 13, 2007 |
| DNA Statistical Mechanics Institute for Applied Mathematics (IMA) . University of Minnesota. 2007-09-15. (Invited), September 15, 2007 |
| Coarse-Grained Models of Protein Motions Workshop on Multiscale Protein Modeling . Imperial College, London. 2007-09-12. (Invited), September 12, 2007 |
| Harmonic Analysis, Computational Biology, and Self-Replicating Robots Invited Seminar. UPenn, GRASP Lab. 2007-01-19. (Invited), January 19, 2007 |
| Enhanced elastic network model for tRNA folding Biophysical Society Mtg Poster. Baltimore Convention Center. 2007-01-15., January 15, 2007 |
| Self-Replicating Robots Seminar. Texas A+M University, Aerospace Eng. Dept. 2006-10-03., October 3, 2006 |
| Self-Replicating Robots Invited Seminar. Vanderilt University, ME Dept. 2006-10-01. (Invited), October 1, 2006 |
| Self-Replicating Robots Robosphere Workshop. NASA Ames. 2004-11-08., November 8, 2004 |
| Engineering Applications of Noncommutative Harmonic Analysis Math Sci / CS Seminar. RPI. 2003-10-00., September 30, 2003 |
| Invited Lecture: Max-Planck Inst fur Informatik Workshop on Geometric Computing. Saarbrucken, Germany. 2003-09-25. (Invited), September 25, 2003 |
| Invited Lecture Workshop on Topology and Geometry. ETH Zurich. 2003-06-24. (Invited), June 24, 2003 |
| Invited Seminar . Villanova University. 2003-02-21. (Invited), February 21, 2003 |
| Invited Seminar . Yale University. 2003-02-19. (Invited), February 19, 2003 |
| poster ``Group-Theoretic Methods in Protein Structure Determination'' Mathematical Biology PI's mtg, UMCP, April 2010, December 31, 1969 |
Committees
| 2011: Attended numerous job talks, lunches, dinners for 3 searches during 2011 |
| 2011: Advisor to all MSEM in ME students |
| 2011: advising MSE ME Robotics students |
| 2011: Member, ME Newsletter |
| 2011 - 2012: Chairing ME Robotics Search |
| 2011 - 2011: Member, ME Grad Admissions Committee |
| 2011 - 2011: Advising EM undergrad students |
| 2011 - 2011: Chair of an ad hoc promotion committee |
| 2011 - 2011: Chair of UG recruiting (responsible for organization and presentation at open houses, and ad hoc visits by individual students and their parents) |
| : Chair of two ad hoc promotion committees |
| : Member, ME Graduate Recruiting Committee |
| : Chair of ME undergraduate recruiting |
| : Member, ME Newsletter Committee |