Gregory S. ChirikjianProfessor

Chirikjian’s research interests lie in robotics, automation and manufacturing; biomolecular mechanics, conformational analysis and nanoscience; mathematical crystallography; medical image registration, fiducial design and reconstruction; and in mathematical modeling and computational mathematics. He has developed numerical and analytical techniques for efficient computation of motion in binary robot arm design. He holds four patents for his work.
Chirikjian directs the Robot and Protein Kinematics Laboratory, which is involved in research in computational structural biology, self-replicating robotic systems and applied mathematics, among other areas. It is part of the Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics (LCSR) at the Johns Hopkins University. Current projects include work developing a system to allow real-time browsing of library collections and to create a library robot capable of physically retrieving books. Another effort aims to improve views of CT or MRI imaging within single image slices.