Robert Ghrist
Andrea Mitchell University Professor and Professor
Electrical and Systems Engineering (ESE)
Honors and Awards: S. Reid Warren Jr. Teaching Award - 2009, Andrea Mitchell PIK University Professorship - 2008, Presidential Early Career Award - 2004, NSF CAREER Award - 2002
Research Expertise: Topology | Robotics | Sensor networks
Rob's work focuses on those methods in applied mathematics and engineering which are global or topological in nature. Such methods have the feature of being very robust topological results are tolerant of the inherent in systems and are therefore both elegant and effective in engineering. Specific application foci include sensor and communication networks, multi-agent robotics, and dynamical systems.
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Education:
Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics - Cornell University 1995
M.S. in Applied Mathematics - Cornell University 1994
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering - University of Toledo 1991
Recent Publications 
- Invariants for homology classes with application to optimal search and planning problem in robotics, Bhattacharya, S. | Lipsky, D. | Ghrist, R. | Kumar, V., Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, 2013
- Cyclic network automata for indoor sensor network, Cai, Y. | Ghrist, R., IPSN'12 - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, 2012
- Topological localization via signals of opportunity, Robinson, M. | Ghrist, R., IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2012
- Distributed computation of coverage in sensor networks by homological methods, Dłotko, P. | Ghrist, R. | Juda, M. | Mrozek, M., Applicable Algebra in Engineering, Communications and Computing, 2012
- Inversion of Euler integral transforms with applications to sensor data, Baryshnikov, Y. | Ghrist, R. | Lipsky, D., Inverse Problems, 2011