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Sam Kriegman is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Chemical and Biological Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University. His research focuses on evolutionary robotics, machine learning, and synthetic biology, particularly through the development of the world's first AI-designed organisms ("xenobots").
- Schmidt Futures AI2050 Early Career Fellow
- NSF CAREER Award recipient
- ISAL Distinguished Early-Career Investigator
- Cozzarelli Prize awardee
Sam's research interests span evolutionary robotics, synthetic biology, and embodied artificial intelligence, emphasizing how biological principles can inform robot design. His work explores kinematic self-replication, reconfigurable organisms, and the intersection of machine learning with cellular engineering.
His most recent publications highlight advancements in AI-designed biological systems, modular robotics, and morphological co-design. These works intersect robotics, synthetic biology, and machine learning, with notable emphasis on self-replicating organisms, modular legged robots, and morphological pretraining.
Scientific awards and honors include:
- Schmidt Futures AI2050 Early Career Fellowship
- NSF CAREER Award
- ISAL Distinguished Early-Career Investigator Award
- Cozzarelli Prize
Sam leads the xenobot.group lab, which investigates bio-inspired robotics and evolutionary computation. He also teaches the graduate course Artificial Life, focusing on embodied AI through simulations and synthetic biological constructs.
