His lab was awarded a NASA Early Career Faculty award which has funded their research on soft robots. His current research interests relate to improving modeling and control for robot manipulation in unstructured and dynamic environments. This includes applications to space exploration, search and rescue, disaster response and human-robot interaction. Marc completed his Ph.D. in Robotics from the Healthcare Robotics Lab (HRL) at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Prior to joining HRL, Marc completed Masters??degrees in Mechanical Engineering in 2008 from both Georgia Tech and AM ParisTech (formerly ENSAM) in Metz, France. In 2007, Marc graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Brigham Young University.