Update: It's official: I'm now "Dr. Deyle." The PhD defense went swimmingly, and I've turned in the official "camera ready" version of the dissertation. I was awarded a prestigious NSF Computing Innovation (CI) Postdoc Fellowship to work under my long-time mentor, Dr. Matt Reynolds... so I'm off to Duke University. I'm not exactly sure what to call my new appointment, perhaps: "entrepreneurial scientist." Basically, I'm going to work on cutting-edge research projects with near-term commercial potential and try to shepherd them out of the lab. I'm always on the lookout for other compelling opportunities: startup, consulting, research, or industry. Know of an interesting opportunity? Drop me a line.
Brief Bio
Travis Deyle is currently a postdoc researcher in Matt Reynolds' lab at Duke University. Travis' research interests include robotics, RFID, power scavenging, materials science, and the physics of novel sensing and actuation.
Travis received his PhD in Fall 2011 from Georgia Tech's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). Travis was a member of the Healthcare Robotics Lab, where he studied under the tutelage of his advisor, Dr. Charles C. Kemp. His thesis was entitled, "Ultra High Frequency (UHF) Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) for Robot Perception and Mobile Manipulation." He holds a MS from Georgia Tech (2008) and dual-BS with quad-majors (EE, Comp-E, CS, Math) from the University of Nebraska (2005). For many years / summers he worked at Sandia National Labs in Livermore, CA.
Miscellany
Travis founded Hizook.com, a robotics website for academic and professional roboticists. The website has ~15k unique monthly visitors, over 2M cumulative YouTube viewers, and has been prominently featured on several major internet news outlets. Travis has been called "one of the world's top robotics bloggers" by IEEE Spectrum.
Travis has a penchant for science fiction novels and films. He hopes to one day pen a science fiction novel of his own, but in the meantime maintains a list of his scifi reading exploits (and is always on the lookout for new books / authors!). He is also an avid reader, consuming anything related to science, technology, and entrepreneurship.
