Aaron D. Ames has been the Bren Professor of Mechanical and Civil Engineering and Control and Dynamical Systems at California Institute of Technology,^[1] in Pasadena, California, since 2017. Formerly, he was an associate professor of mechanical engineering and electrical and computer engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology,^[2] Atlanta, Georgia, and an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Texas A&M University,^[3] College Station, Texas.

Ames received his PhD in electrical and computer engineering from University of California, Berkeley^[4] in 2006 under S. Shankar Sastry. He was the recipient of the Donald P. Eckman Award^[5] in 2015 for his contributions in bipedal robotic research. He was also a recipient of the 2017 Okawa Foundation Research Grant^[6] for his research project entitled "Safety-Critical Autonomy in Robotic Locomotion". This prize honors top young researchers working in the fields of information and telecommunications.

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