Prior to joining Temple, Dr. Dames worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics in 2015. His main research interest is multi-robot systems. In particular, he works on problems in planning, control, estimation, and communication to enable robots to autonomously explore and gather information in a wide variety of settings.