Marc Killpack
Professor Of Mechanical Engineering at Brigham Young University
Provo, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolMarc Killpack is an associate professor of mechanical engineering at BYU with nine years of academic experience and a Ph.D. in robotics focused on manipulation in cluttered, unstructured environments such as disaster response and in-home assistance. His research blends model predictive control, learned models for control, and haptic-based controllers to enable robust physical human-robot interaction and human-in-the-loop performance. He leads projects on hard-to-model systems including large-scale pneumatically driven soft robots and collaborative human-robot teams manipulating large payloads, translating low-level control theory into practical tools for uncertain real-world settings. Known for bridging rigorous control development with experimental systems, he brings experience from top robotics labs and industry internships to mentor students and pursue interdisciplinary collaborations.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Robotics Ph.D. Robotics, Robotics Ph.D. Robotics at Georgia Institute of TechnologyMaster Pro Mechanical Engineering, Master Pro Mechanical Engineering at Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers (ENSAM)Bachelors of Science Mechanical Engineering, Bachelors of Science Mechanical Engineering at Brigham Young University
French
Github Skills (2)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (4)
BYU-ME-537/byu_robotics_hw
Aug 2024 - Sep 2025
template files needed to complete the homework for ME 537 at BYU
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 1 year
byu-controlbook/byu_controlbook_public
Jan 2026 - Mar 2026
Contributions:4 pushes in 1 month
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