Gary Fedder

Dr. Fedder arrived at the university in 1994 with a joint faculty appointment in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and The Robotics Institute. He currently is Hamerschlag University Professor in ECE and has courtesy faculty appointments in Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and The Robotics Institute. He is faculty director of Carnegie Mellon's Manufacturing Futures Institute (MFI), whose mission is to inspire, engineer and lead technological and workforce advances for agile, intelligent, efficient, resilient and sustainable manufacturing. He previously served in administrative roles as Vice Provost for Research (2015-2017,2018), Director of the Institute for Complex Engineered Systems (2006-2013, now known as the Engineering Research Accelerator), as Associate Dean for Research in the College of Engineering (2013-2015) and as Interim Chief Executive Officer for the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing (ARM) Institute (2/2017-1/2018; 1/2020-7/2020).

Dr. Fedder earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees in EECS(6.1) from MIT in 1982 and 1984, respectively. From 1984 to 1989, he worked at the Hewlett-Packard Company on circuit design and printed-circuit modeling. In 1994, he obtained the Ph.D. degree in EECS from the University of California at Berkeley, where his research resulted in the first demonstration of multimode control of an underdamped surface-micromachined inertial device. In 2007, he was elevated to IEEE Fellow for contributions to integrated micro-electro-mechanical-system processes and design methodologies. His awards include the 1993 AIME Electronic Materials Society Ross Tucker Award, the 1996 Carnegie Institute of Technology George Tallman Ladd Research Award, and a 1996 NSF CAREER Award.

Currently, he serves on the executive editorial board for the IoP Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, on the editorial board of IET Micro & Nano Letters, and as co-editor of the Wiley-VCH Advanced Micro- and Nanosystems book series. He served on the editorial board of the IEEE Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems from 2001 to 2013 and on the editorial board of SPIE Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS from 2010 to 2013. He served as the 2015 Transducers Conference regional program chair for the Americas, as general chair of the 2010 IEEE Sensors Conference, and as general co-chair of the 2005 IEEE MEMS Conference. Professor Fedder has contributed to over 300 research publications and holds 23 patents in the MEMS area.

From 2011 to 2012, Dr. Fedder served as a technical co-lead in the U.S. Advanced Manufacturing Partnership where he worked with industry, academia and government to generate recommendations that motivated the launch of the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI), now called Manufacturing USA. He co-led the proposal that landed the $70M pilot institute for the NNMI, America Makes, and served on its Executive Committee from 2012 to 2016. In 2016`, Dr.Fedder co-led with Professor Howie Choset a successful proposal to the Department of Defense to launch the ARM Institute, which became an institute in the national network of Manufacturing USA Institutes on January 9, 2017. As founding president of the ARM Institute and Interim CEO through its first year, Dr. Fedder helped build the organization and grew its consortium membership of industry, academic and non-profit organizations (now with over 350 members). He currently sits on the ARM Institute's Board of Directors.