Lekan Molu
Bio Snippet
Research Focus
- Core: Control Theory. Robotics. Soft Matter. Elastic Deformations.
Current/Past University Affiliations
- Postdoctoral Researcher, The University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine (2019 - Present).
- Postdoctoral Scholar, The University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine (2019 - Present).
- Adjunct Instructor, Brandeis University, Graduate School of Professional Studies, Robot Manipulation, Motion Planning and Control, (2019 - Present).
- Student, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Medical Physics and Engineering (Ended 2019).
- Student, The University of Texas at Dallas, School of Engineering (Ended 2019).
- Student, The University of Sheffield, Automatic Control and Systems Engineering (Ended 2012/2013).
Previous Company Affiliations
- Amazon Robotics (Advanced Robotics Lab), Greater Boston Area, MA (Ended 2016).
- Preferred Networks, Tokyo, Japan (Ended 2018).
- Coca-Cola, Lagos/Athens (Ended 2011).
Select News Highlights
| I am teaching a robot manipulation course at Brandeis in the winter and spring of 2020 as an Adjunct Faculty. Basically, I will be synthesizing robot statics and kinematics, robot dynamics and control, along with deep reinforcement learning for trajectory optimization. I will strive to have all lecture notes and software available on the RBOT250 website to the extent that my employer allows. | November 7, 2019 |
| I have successfully defended my PhD Thesis. Thanks to the mentors I worked with during my graduate program, viz., Steve B. Jiang, and Nick Gans, and my dissertation committee members: Mark Spong, T. Summers, Y. Tadesse and D. Bhatia. | May 16, 2019 |
| I will be pitching my start-up idea to VCs in Vancouver in October. Yeah, sure. Come in and argue! | August 1, 2017 |
Invited Talks
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Soft Robots-based Position Correction Mechanisms in Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy. Open Robotics Foundation, Mountain View, CA, USA. January 2019.
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Robotic Radiotherapy: Automating Position Correction in Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy, Department of Energy Resources Engineering. Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. November 2018.
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Robotic Radiotherapy: Automating Position Correction in Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy, Department of Radiation and Cellular Oncology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA. November 2018.
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Minimax Iterative Dynamic Game, Department of Brain Robot Interface. Computational Neuroscience Labs, ATR, Osaka, Japan. August 2018.
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Neural Networks and Adaptive Control, Preferred Networks Tech. Talk, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo. Japan. August 2018.
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SoftNeuroAdapt: A 3-DoF Neuro-Adaptive Healthcare System. Google Robotics, Mountain View, CA. USA. September 2017. [Work presented by Nick Gans].
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A Wearable Soft Robot Modular System for Head and Neck Motion Correction in Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy. University of Texas at Arlington Research Institute, Fort Worth, Texas, USA. May 2019.
Peer Research Reviewing Activities
- Automatica, A Journal of IFAC, The International Federation of Automatic Control.
- JBHI, An IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics.
- Access, An IEEE Journal.
- NCAA, Neural Computing and Applications. A Springer Journal.
- World Congress, The IFAC, The International Federation of Automatic Control.
- ICRA, An IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation.
- CDC, An IEEE International Conference on Decision and Control.
- IROS, An IEEE/Robotics Society of Japan International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems.
- DSCC, Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers Conference.
- ACC, An IEEE Control Systems Society/American Control Conference.
- ICML, International Conference on Machine Learning
- External Grants Reviewer, National Geographic Society.
Recent Blog Posts
| Research, Peer Review, Writing Papers. | March 10, 2019 |
| Optimality vs. Stability of Feedback Control Systems. | August 22, 2018 |
| Control Commons | August 4, 2018 |
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Side Projects
- screw theory and elastic deformations: screws (in mathematica and matlab) applied to continuum dynamics, codes and examples.
- gps: a re-implementation of Levine et al’s guided policy search algorithm in ros indigo.
- ensenso: ros and point cloud library bridges to the ensenso 3D N35 camera factory api.
- awesome screw theory: a curated list of papers that apply screw theory for soft and rigid robots control.
- awesome neuro-control: a curated list of papers that apply neural dynamics to control systems.
- bourne again shells: short & fun bash scripts.
- savgol: a c++11 implementation of the vandermonde matrix as well as savityzky-golay differentiation filter and smoothing coefficients.
- keyence: basic api in c and c++ for streaming sensed data from the keyence LJV-7300 line scanner.
- the chemistry of robotics: ideas and tips for cooking things up out of various chemical compounds in order to create useful elastomers for your soft robot components.
- data structure commons: a collection of solutions to interesting software engineering questions. source code.
- gocator: ros and point cloud library bridges to the LMI gocator line scanning sensor.
- reading list: a collection of papers I am currently reading/implementing.
- radiation therapy dose influence matrices : extracting fluence based on the varian medical systems c#/python api from eclipse. core api courtesy of mike folkerts over at UCSD/UTSW/Varian.
- summer’18 reading list: Bellman and Optimal Control.
Strava Activities Summary
Regular mortal on two wheels hoping to someday be a world champ here. As often as I can get away from the lab, I like to pedal the metals of my bike, often logging approximately 120 miles a week during cycling season (riding rain or shine, hell or highwater during the cycling season). I ride in the parching heats of sultry Texas, the blustering cold winds of the Midwest and the Eastern Seaboard. In the winter, I get sloppy with my usual ride schedule and pile on more fat :-). States where I have ridden so far include Texas, Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey. Below is a screenshot of my recent activities summary. Feel free to follow me on Strava as I pursue life, liberty and the trails!
Last updated on 2019-09-07