Brendan Englot, a highly accomplished Stevens faculty member, robotics expert and academic leader, has taken the helm of the new School of Computing, which launched this fall. 

Englot joined the School of Computing as its interim dean on August 1 and is leading the school through its two-year launch period. The Anson Wood Burchard Endowed Professor of Mechanical Engineering, he began at Stevens in 2014 and has served as director of the Stevens Institute for Artificial Intelligence. He has 15 years of experience developing and deploying mobile robots and autonomous navigation algorithms via land, air and sea.

A fascination for the multi-dimensional nature of the field of robotics, discovered in his undergraduate years, drove Englot to cultivate the broad perspective and deep expertise needed to thrive in the field: looking beyond mechanical engineering skills, to electronics, programming, design, algorithms and AI knowledge as well.

Englot’s research at Stevens has been funded by a wide range of government sponsors, including the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Office of Naval Research (ONR), along with several industry sponsors. His many honors include the NSF CAREER Award and the ONR Young Investigator Award. He has also been named to AMiner’s list of the most influential scholars in robotics. He holds a Ph.D., M.S. and B.S. in mechanical engineering, all from MIT. 

The School of Computing will allow students to pursue studies in computing itself, as well as its application to health, finance, the arts and other fields. The school’s creation is in response to surging demand for professionals who can apply AI and computing skills within their own disciplines. 

-Kara Panzer