Summary
Aaron Becker is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Houston who leads the Robotic Swarm Control Lab and has spent 11+ years advancing control, mechatronics, and motion planning for multi-robot systems. His work spans academic leadership, mentoring PhD students and managing sponsored research from NAVSEA, USAF, ARL and NSF, to hands-on development of swarms of 100+ robots and MRI-compatible surgical robots. Trained at UIUC with postdoctoral experience at Rice and Harvard/Boston Children’s Hospital, he blends rigorous control-theoretic proofs with practical system design and experimental validation. Notably, he has demonstrated controllability of many differential-drive robots under uniform inputs and translated that theory into large-scale swarm demonstrations. Based in Houston, he teaches the next generation of roboticists while maintaining an active, funded research program in distributed algorithms and motion planning.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at University of Houston
Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical and Computer Engineering, 3.95, Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical and Computer Engineering, 3.95 at Iowa State University
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign