Dennis Hong
Keynote Speaker: Roboticist, Magician, Chef & Professor
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Dennis Hong Biography
Dennis Hong is a professor and the Founding Director of RoMeLa (Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory) at UCLA. His research focuses on robot locomotion and manipulation, autonomous vehicles and humanoid robots.
In 1977, a six-year-old boy visiting Los Angeles from South Korea saw Star Wars for the first time. He gaped at the curious locomotion of R2-D2 and the human-robot interactions of C-3PO, and as he flew back home, Hong remembers, "I knew I was going to build robots for the rest of my life." Now he is living his dreams.
Hong is the inventor of a number of novel robots and mechanisms, including the ‘whole skin locomotion’ for mobile robots inspired by how amoeba move, a unique three-legged waking robot STriDER, and the world’s first car that can be driven by the blind. His work has been featured on numerous national and international media. Washington Post Magazine called Dr. Hong “the Leonardo da Vinci of robots.”
Dr. Hong has been named to Popular Science’s 8th annual “Brilliant 10”, honoring top scientists younger than 40 years of age from across the United States, “Forward Under 40” by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Alumni Association, and also honored as “Top 40 Under 40” alumni by Purdue University. Hong’s other past awards include the National Science Foundation’s CAREER award, the SAE International’s Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award, and the ASME Freudenstein / GM Young Investigator Award to name a few.
Dr. Hong also actively leads student teams for various international robotics and design competitions winning numerous top prizes including the DARPA Urban Challenge where they won third place, and the RoboCup, the international autonomous robot soccer competition where his team won First Place five time in the Humanoid divisions and brought the Louis Vuitton Cup Best Humanoid Award to the United States for the very first time.
He is also a serious gourmet chef (MasterChef USA) and a magician (NETFLIX, Magic for Human) performing annual charity magic shows and lectures on the science of magic.
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