George A. Bekey

Professor Emeritus, Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Title: From Humble Beginnings to Global Prominence

My research career at USC was charecterized by variety. I have always had broad interests, and hence my research did not center in any one area for long periods. In this talk I will describe my wanderings from human-machine systems to hybrid analog-digital computing to biological control systems and finally to robotics. Of course, there were common threads in all these areas and I was successful in obtaining significant research funding in all of them. I will also highlight some of the more successful projects and the PhD students who made this success possible.