Carnegie Mellon University

Sarah Bergbreiter

Sarah Bergbreiter

Courtesy Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor, Mechanical Engineering

  • 312 Scaife Hall
  • 412-268-3216
Address 5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Bio

Sarah Bergbreiter joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in the fall of 2018.

She received her B.S.E. degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University in 1999. After a short introduction to the challenges of sensor networks at a small startup company, she received the MS and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley in 2004 and 2007 with a focus on microrobotics. She joined the University of Maryland, College Park in 2008 as an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, with a joint appointment in the Institute for Systems Research.

She received the DARPA Young Faculty Award in 2008, the NSF CAREER Award in 2011, and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) Award in 2013 for her research on engineering robotic systems down to sub-millimeter size scales. She also received the Best Conference Paper Award at IEEE ICRA 2010 for her work incorporating new materials into microrobotics.

Research

  • bioinspired robotics
  • legged and aerial robotics
  • micro/nano-robotics
  • robotics
  • soft robotics
  • wearable robotics