School of Engineering

Arthur C. Sanderson
Professor
Vice President of Research

Department Affiliation:

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Department of Electrical, Computer, & Systems Engineering

Education:

Background:

After completing a post-doctorate at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in The Netherlands, Sanderson spent 14 years at Carnegie-Mellon University. He served as a professor of electrical and computer engineering as well as co-director of the Robotics Institute. While affiliated with CMU, he also held visiting faculty positions for several institutions, including TU Delft; Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City; and served as research director at Philips Laboratories in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.

Sanderson joined Rensselaer with the rank of professor and served as head of the Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Department from 1987 to 1994. He spent 1996 on sabbatical leave as a visiting professor in the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory at the Institute for Information Sciences and Electronics in Japan's University of Tsukuba. During 1998 and 1999, he was on leave from Rensselaer while serving as director of the Division of Electrical and Communications Systems at the National Science Foundation. He became Rensselaer's vice president for research in January 2000.

Sanderson is the author of over 250 publications and proceedings. He has also published three books, including Multisensor Fusion: A Minimal Representation Framework with Rajive Joshi.

Research Interests:

Sanderson's research interests include signal processing, robotics and automation systems, sensor-based control, computer vision, and applications of knowledge-based systems.