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Dr. David Saldaña

Head of Laboratory
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Lehigh University
E-mail
saldana [at] lehigh.edu
Office address
Office: 319
Building C
Mountaintop Campus
Lehigh University

Photo by Eric Sucar at Penn Today

About Me

I am Assistant Professor in Computer Science & Engineering at Lehigh University. Before joining Lehigh, I worked as a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the GRASP Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania, with Prof. Vijay Kumar.

I completed my PhD in Artifical Intelligence and Robotics, advised by Prof. Mario Fernando Campos , and Prof. Renato Assunção, in the Laboratory of Computer Vision and Robotics – VeRLab, Department of Computer Science at Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Research Interests

Flying Modular Robots
Multi-rotor systems, self-assembly algorithms, cooperative flying robots.
Environmental Monitoring
Prediction of environmental boundaries, Multi-robot coordination.
Resilient Robot Swarms
Robot Swarms, perimeter surveillance, resilient consensus.

Academic Timeline

  • 2005 – 2010

B.Sc. in Engineering of Systems and Informatics Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellin, Colombia

  • 2011 – 2012

M.Sc. in Engineering – Systems Engineering Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellin, Colombia

  • 2013 – 2017

PhD. in Computer Science Laboratory of Computer Vision and Robotics – VeRLab
Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil

  • 2015 – 2017

Visiting Reseach Scholar GRASP Laboratory University of Pennsylvania, USA

  • 2017 – 2019

Post-Doctoral Researcher GRASP Laboratory University of Pennsylvania, USA

  • 2019 – Present

Assistant Professor Computer Science & Engineering Lehigh University, USA

Publications

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2014

Saldaña, David; Chaimowicz, Luiz; Campos, Mario F. M.

Searching and Tracking Anomalies with Multiple Robots: A Probabilistic Approach Inproceedings

In: 2014 Joint Conference on Robotics: SBR-LARS Robotics Symposium and Robocontrol, pp. 67-72, 2014.

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