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Arvin Agah
 
Faculty
Arvin Agah
Professor, EECS

ITTC Lab Affiliation(s)
   Intelligent Systems Laboratory
Contact Info
Primary Office: 134 Nichols
ITTC--Univ of KS
2335 Irving Hill Road
Lawrence, KS 66045-7612
Phone: (785)864-7752
Fax: (785)864-0387

Secondary Office: 2001F Eaton
1520 W 15th St
EECS-Univ of KS
Lawrence, KS 66045-7621
Phone: (785)864-8821
Fax: (785)864-3226

Email Address: agah@ittc.ku.edu
Homepage: http://people.ku.edu/~agah
Awards

  • KU EECS Cerner Teaching Award, 2004
  • KU Center for Teaching Excellence Celebration of Teaching Award, 2004
  • Miller Scholar, School of Engineering, University of Kansas, 2001
  • Engineering Expo Educator Award, University of Kansas, 2001
  • Senior Member, IEEE, 2001
  • KU Henry E. Gould Award for Outstanding Teaching, School of Engineering, University of Kansas, 2000
  • Summer Faculty Research Fellowship, U.S. Navy-ASEE, 1999
  • Post-Doctoral Fellowship, NSF-STA, 1995-1997
  • Who's Who in Science and Engineering, Marquis Who's Who, 1997-1998
Biography

Dr. Arvin Agah is Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at The University of Kansas. From October 1995 through August 1997 he was a visiting researcher at the Bio-Robotics Division of Mechanical Engineering Laboratory, Ministry of International Trade and Industry, in Tsukuba, Japan. Dr. Agah has been a member of the research staff at IBM Corporation's Los Angeles Scientific Center, Santa Monica, California, in 1989; and Xerox Corporation's Webster Research Center, Rochester, New York, in 1988. He has also worked as a technical consultant in the areas of graphical user interfaces and database design for entertainment law firms and management companies in Century City and Beverly Hills, California.

Education:
  • Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 1994
  • M.S., Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 1993
  • M.S., Computer Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 1988
  • B.A., Computer Science, highest honors, University of Texas, Austin, TX, 1986

Teaching:
Robotics, artificial intelligence, intelligent agents, software engineering, computer systems design.

Research Interests:
Distributed robotics, biomedical robotics, multi-agent systems, autonomous mobile robots for harsh environments, software engineering.

Professional Affiliations:
Member of ACM, AIAA, and IEEE.