2026 Daniela Rus: Electronics and Electrical Engineering Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Best Female Scientists	138	259	245	164	155	883	69501
Computer Science	139	73	70	43	41	845	71142
Electronics and Electrical Engineering	138	27	27	15	15	779	70640

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award
2026 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in United States Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
2025 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in United States Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award
2020 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2017 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2015 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For contributions to distributed robotic systems.
2014 - ACM Fellow For contributions to robotics and sensor networks.
2010 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to distributed and modular robotics
2009 - Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) For significant contributions to the theory and practice of distributed robotics, agents, and sensor networks.
2002 - Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation
1998 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Daniela Rus is affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Computer Science and Engineering, with significant contributions in subfields such as Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Biomedical Engineering, Control and Systems Engineering, and Automotive Engineering.

Their main topics of research work include:

Reinforcement Learning in Robotics
Soft Robotics and Applications
Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety
Robotic Path Planning Algorithms
Advanced Neural Network Applications
Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning
Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence

Daniela Rus has a substantial academic publication record with many papers appearing in frequent venues such as:

arXiv (Cornell University)
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Some of their recent significant papers include:

"Model-Based Control of Soft Robots: A Survey of the State of the Art and Open Challenges," 2023, IEEE Control Systems
"Model-based dynamic feedback control of a planar soft robot: trajectory tracking and interaction with the environment," 2020, The International Journal of Robotics Research
"Neural circuit policies enabling auditable autonomy," 2020, Nature Machine Intelligence
"Liquid Time-constant Networks," 2021, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
"On an Improved State Parametrization for Soft Robots With Piecewise Constant Curvature and Its Use in Model Based Control," 2020, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Daniela Rus include:

Ramin Hasani
Alexander Amini
Sertaç Karaman
Mathias Lechner
Cosimo Della Santina

Throughout their career, Daniela Rus has received multiple awards and fellowships from various scientific and professional organizations, including:

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2020
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2017
Member of the National Academy of Engineering, 2015, for contributions to distributed robotic systems
ACM Fellow, 2014, for contributions to robotics and sensor networks
IEEE Fellow, 2010, for contributions to distributed and modular robotics
Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2009, for significant contributions to distributed robotics, agents, and sensor networks
Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation, 2002
Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 1998

Best Publications

Design, fabrication and control of soft robots

Daniela L. Rus;Michael T. Tolley

5763
Citations
Robust distributed network localization with noisy range measurements

David Moore;John Leonard;Daniela Rus;Seth Teller

1340
Citations
On-demand high-capacity ride-sharing via dynamic trip-vehicle assignment

Javier Alonso-Mora;Samitha Samaranayake;Alex Wallar;Emilio Frazzoli

1313
Citations
Artificial Intelligence in Surgery: Promises and Perils

Daniel A. Hashimoto;Guy Rosman;Daniela Rus;Ozanan R. Meireles

1226
Citations
Modular Self-Reconfigurable Robot Systems [Grand Challenges of Robotics]

M. Yim;Wei-Min Shen;B. Salemi;D. Rus

1165
Citations
Global clock synchronization in sensor networks

Qun Li;D. Rus

1093
Citations
A method for building self-folding machines

S. Felton;M. Tolley;E. Demaine;D. Rus

1086
Citations
Autonomous Soft Robotic Fish Capable of Escape Maneuvers Using Fluidic Elastomer Actuators.

Andrew D. Marchese;Cagdas D. Onal;Daniela Rus

1010
Citations
Planning and Decision-Making for Autonomous Vehicles

Wilko Schwarting;Javier Alonso-Mora;Daniela Rus

1009
Citations
Data collection, storage, and retrieval with an underwater sensor network

I. Vasilescu;K. Kotay;D. Rus;M. Dunbabin

875
Citations
Exploration of underwater life with an acoustically controlled soft robotic fish

Robert Kevin Katzschmann;Joseph Jeff DelPreto;Robert MacCurdy;Daniela L Rus

779
Citations
Programmable matter by folding

E. Hawkes;B. An;N. M. Benbernou;H. Tanaka

773
Citations
Meshworm: A Peristaltic Soft Robot With Antagonistic Nickel Titanium Coil Actuators

Sangok Seok;Cagdas Denizel Onal;Kyu-Jin Cho;Robert J. Wood

757
Citations
Fluid-driven origami-inspired artificial muscles

Shuguang Li;Shuguang Li;Shuguang Li;Daniel M. Vogt;Daniel M. Vogt;Daniela Rus;Robert J. Wood;Robert J. Wood

730
Citations
A Recipe for Soft Fluidic Elastomer Robots

Andrew Dominic Marchese;Robert Kevin Katzschmann;Daniela L Rus

720
Citations
Online power-aware routing in wireless Ad-hoc networks

Qun Li;Javed Aslam;Daniela Rus

713
Citations
Perception, Planning, Control, and Coordination for Autonomous Vehicles

Scott Drew Pendleton;Hans Andersen;Xinxin Du;Xiaotong Shen

677
Citations
Design, fabrication and control of origami robots

Daniela Rus;Michael T. Tolley

614
Citations
Tracking a moving object with a binary sensor network

Javed Aslam;Zack Butler;Florin Constantin;Valentino Crespi

574
Citations
Decentralized, Adaptive Coverage Control for Networked Robots

Mac Schwager;Daniela Rus;Jean-Jacques Slotine

496
Citations
LVI-SAM: Tightly-coupled Lidar-Visual-Inertial Odometry via Smoothing and Mapping

Tixiao Shan;Brendan Englot;Carlo Ratti;Daniela Rus

496
Citations
Modular Self-Reconfigurable Robot Systems

Mark Yim;Wei-Min Shen;Behnam Salemi;Daniela Rus

311
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Mac Schwager Stanford University

Sertac Karaman MIT

Emilio Frazzoli ETH Zurich

Marcelo H. Ang National University of Singapore

Javier Alonso-Mora Delft University of Technology

Peter Corke Queensland University of Technology

Javed A. Aslam Northeastern University

David Kotz Dartmouth College

Bruce R. Donald Duke University

Stephen L. Smith University of Guelph

External Links

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