Me at the Museum of Science and Industry during National Robotics Week. I helped present Todd Murphey’s robotic marionettes platform designed and built by Jarvis Schultz.

I entered the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at the University of Colorado in 2003.  A couple years in, I joined Prof. Todd Murphey‘s robotics lab and worked on and ultimately defended a thesis on vehicle traction estimation and control.  I earned a combined BS and MS degree in the summer of 2009. In that fall I became a member of the Neuroscience and Robotics Lab (NxR), having followed Prof. Murphey to Northwestern University after he transitioned there a year prior. A year into my PhD I became one of the 150 inaugural Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Fellows (DOE SCGF).   I received my PhD in the summer of 2013, having successfully defended my work on iterative methods in switched system optimal control. Currently, I am a postdoctoral researcher with Nikolaus Correll at the University of Colorado working on robotic parameter identification of flexible objects.

I am also an avid rock climber, always looking forward to the next boulder to climb, especially if that boulder is in Rocky Mountain National Park.

This site contains snippets of the projects I have worked on. Enjoy!

Tim Caldwell

P.S. don’t over think the name timbot2.