Dr. Rudranarayan Mukherjee is a Research Technologist in the Robotics Modeling and Simulation group at the Robotics and Mobility Systems section at JPL. He is a Principal Investigator of number of JPL efforts for DARPA, ARL, ONR either as lead or in collaboration with other entities as well as Co-Investigator of a number of internal JPL efforts. His primary role at JPL is to develop and apply new technologies, particularly in computational modeling of emergent behaviors in complex systems. He is an elected member of the ASME International Technical Committee on Multibody Systems and Nonlinear Dynamics (TC-MSND).

Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2007)

M.S. in Mechanical Engineering

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2002)

B.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering

University of Pune, India (2000)

Current Experience:

• Principal Investigator, JPL effort for DARPA C2M2L program 2012-13
• Principal Investigator, JPL effort for DARPA AVM program 2012-15
• Principal Investigator, JPL and Stanford University effort for ARL MAST program, 2013-15
• Principal Investigator, JPL effort led by Neya Inc. for RTC / ONR, 2012-14
• Principal Investigator, JPL CIF funded workshop, 2013
• Co-Investigator, JPL internal RTD effort on sampling 2013