Steven M. LaValle received Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1995. From 1995-1997 he was a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford, and an assistant professor at Iowa State from 1997-2001. He is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and a part-time member of the Artificial Intelligence group. His fields of professional interest are robotics, artificial intelligence, algorithms, and computational biology.
Honors: National Science Foundation CAREER Award (1999); Beckman Graduate Fellow (1994); Mavis Fellowship (CoE, U of I, 1994)