MAE Welcomes New Faculty

Patrick Musgrave

Assistant Professor

Ph.D. degree from Virginia Tech in 2018 and BSc & BSE degrees from the University of Pittsburgh in 2012
Research Scientist at the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in the Naval Center for Space Technology prior to UF
Research focuses on adaptive and morphing systems operating in fluidic environments, in particular systems subject to dynamic fluid-structure interactions
Jerome Karle’s Fellow at NRL and received early career funding in the area of bio-inspired underwater propulsion
DAAD Scholar, having held a post-baccalaureate research position at the Technical University of Munich

Assistant Professor

Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
B.Sc. degree in Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering in 2017 from Seoul National University, Korea
Current research interests are in the development of design and control methodologies for autonomous robotic systems equipped with sensors
Other interests encompass information theoretic learning, computational geometry, motion planning, machine learning and optimization
Collaborative work with the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) in Panama City, FL

Assistant Professor

Postdoctoral associate at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University
Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering and M.S. degree in Statistics and Mathematics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
Current interest is on learning-based formal synthesis and verification for system control in unknown environments
Received the Best Paper Finalist of the ACM SIGBED International Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT) and was nominated for the Ph.D. Thesis Award of the Coordinated Science Laboratory of UIUC