Daniel M. Lofaro

Daniel M. Lofaro is an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at George Mason University (GMU) and holds a Faculty Appointment with the Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence (NCARAI) at the United State Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). He is the director of Lofaro Labs LLC and the DASL Autonomous Systems Lab at GMU (DASL@GMU). From 2012 to 2014 he was the Research Lead of the DARPA Robotic Challenge team DRC-Hubo. An NSF-EAPSI and ONR-SRFP Fellow his research interests include Humanoid Robotics, Complex Control Systems, Robot Design, Secure Robotics, and Cloud Robotics all within the overarching field of “robots in the real-world”.