Gabriel Hugh Elkaim
University of California, Santa Cruz
Gabriel Hugh Elkaim is an Associate Professor in the Computer Engineering Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in Santa Cruz, CA. He received his B.S. degree in Mechanical/Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, in 1990, the M.S. and Ph.D. Degrees from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in Aeronautics and Astronautics, in 1995 and 2002 respectively.
In 2003, he joined the faculty of the Jack Baskin School of Engineering, at the UC Santa Cruz. His research interests include control systems, sensor fusion, GPS, system identification, and autonomous vehicle systems. His research focuses on intelligent autonomous vehicles, with an emphasis on robust guidance, navigation, and control strategies. Specifically, he has founded the Autonomous Systems Lab at UC Santa Cruz, and is currently developing an open source autopilot for controls research in UAVs.
