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.

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ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Professor
    Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United StatesAug 2018 - present
  • Associate Professor
    University of Maryland, Baltimore, Mechanical Engineering, Baltimore, Maryland, United StatesAug 2014 - Aug 2018
  • Assistant Professor
    University of Maryland, Baltimore, Mechanical Engineering, Baltimore, Maryland, United StatesJan 2008 - Aug 2014
  • Adjunct Associate Professor
    Johns Hopkins University, United States1 Sep 2017 - 29 Dec 2017

DEGREES

  • Ph.D., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
    University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States2007
  • B.S.E., Electrical Engineering
    Princeton University, Princeton, New Jerseu, United States1999
  • M.S. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
    University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States17 May 2004

CAMPUS

  • Pittsburgh

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

  • 7 Affordable and Clean Energy
  • 9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure