PHILLIP DANIEL

Phillip Daniel is a Ph.D. candidate in Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in Robotics and Control, and a minor in Leadership at MIT. His research focuses on developing a crawling algorithm for robotic limbs that are worn to replace the arms of ground-level workers. He is a Gates Millennium Scholarship Program fellowship recipient, and an Alfred P. Sloan scholar. Phillip received a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, with a minor in Religious Studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been a passionate volunteer and mentor for students from underrepresented minorities through his work in STEM teaching and mentoring programs. Phillip will continue to encourage students of all backgrounds to pursue STEM fields.

• Daniel, Phillip, Asada, Harry, “Stable Walking Policy for Wearable SuperLimbs Attached to a Human with
  Tuned Impedance,” IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2020. Las Vegas, NV. 25-29 Oct 2020
• Daniel, Phillip, Church, Joseph, Trumper, David, “Actuation Schemes for Flexible Hull, Undersea Vehicles.” 29th American Society for Precision Engineering Annual Meeting. MIT Precision Motion Control Lab. The Westin Boston Waterfront, Boston. 11 November 2014. Poster Presentation.
• Daniel, P., Church, J., Trumper, D. (2014). “Series Elastic Actuation for Underwater Robot Locomotion.”
  Proceedings of the 29th Annual Meeting. Abstract accepted at 29th American Society for Precision Engineering Annual Meeting. The Westin Boston Waterfront, Boston. 11 November.
• Daniel, Phillip, Church, Joseph, Trumper, David, “Actuation Schemes for Flexible Hull, Undersea Vehicles.”
  NIWeek 2014. MIT Precision Motion Control Lab. Austin Convention Center, Austin. 20 July 2014. Poster
  Presentation.
• Daniel, P., Parness, A., “End Effector Design and Fabrication for Multi-Surface Adhesion,” California Institute of Technology Undergraduate Research Journal, Winter 2013, vol. 13, number 1
• Parness, A., Hilgendorf, T., Daniel, P., Frost, M., Kennedy, B., “Controllable ON-OFF Adhesion for Earth Orbit
  Grappling Applications,” IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, Montana, 2-9 March 2013
• Southern California Conferences for Undergraduate Research Presenter (SCCUR), “End Effector Design and
  Fabrication for Multi-Surface Adhesion,” November 2012
• Daniel, P., Slocum, A., “The Design and Fabrication of a Passive and Continuously Repositionable Joint,” Thesis. MIT, 2013. Cambridge: MIT, 2013. Print.

• Gates Millennium Scholarship Program (GMSP) Fellowship Recipient
  
• Won $10,000 InfyMakers award
• Awarded $5,000 donation from Draper labs
• Accepted into Maxon Motor’s Young Engineers Program
• Raised $3,087 on Kickstarter.com
• Two time featured author on www.Instructables.com
• Moore Foundation MURF Fellow
• GMSP Scholarship Recipient