Dr. David Saldaña
Head of Laboratory
Office address
Office: 319
Building C
Mountaintop Campus
Lehigh University
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
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