Paolo Dario: Short Biographical Sketch
Paolo Dario received his Dr. Eng. Degree
in mechanical engineering from the University
of Pisa, Italy, in 1977. He is currently
a Professor of Biomedical Robotics at the
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa.. He also
established and teaches the course on Mechatronics
at the School of Engineering of the University
of Pisa. He has been Visiting Professor at
the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
(EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, and at Waseda
University, Tokyo, Japan. He was the founder
of the ARTS (Advanced Robotics Technologies
and Systems) Laboratory and is currently
the Co-ordinator of the CRIM (Center for
the Research in Microengineering) Laboratory
of the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, where
he supervises a team of about 70 researchers
and Ph.D. students. He is also the Director
of the Polo Sant'Anna Valdera and a Vice-Director
of the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna. His main
research interests are in the fields of medical
robotics, mechatronics and microengineering,
and specifically in sensors and actuators
for the above applications. He is the coordinator
of many national and European projects, the
editor of two books on the subject of robotics,
and the author of more than 200 scientific
papers. He is the editor of many international
journals. Prof. Dario serves as President
of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society,
as Co-Chairman of the Technical Committee
on Medical Robotics of the same Society,
is an IEEE Fellow and a recipient of the
Joseph Engelberger Award. He is also a member
of the Board of the International Foundation
of Robotics Research (IFRR).