Mark Cutkosky , PhD

Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Stanford University
Stanford, CA

Mark R. Cutkosky is a professor of Mechanical Engineering in the Design Division of the Stanford Mechanical Engineering Department. He is a principal investigator of the Design Interface for 3D Manufacturing and Biomimetic Robotics projects at the Center for Design Research, director of the Dextrous Manipulation Lab, and co-director of the Stanford Alliance for Innovative Manufacturing. Mr. Cutkosky's research in manufacturing focuses on design tools for rapid prototyping. Other research interests include applying analysis, simulations, and experiments to the design and control of robotic hands, tactile sensors, and devices for human/computer interaction. Before coming to Stanford, Mr. Cutkosky was a machine design engineer at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie-Mellon University and at ALCOA, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1985, Mr. Cutkosky received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University.