Salvador Rojas ('18)
Doctoral Student in Robotics
Purdue University Mechanical Engineering
Salvador Rojas is currently a Graduate Research Fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University and joined the Programmable Structures Lab in Fall 2018. His research interests include exploiting dynamical systems with non-linear behavior towards developing novel robotic systems to utilize their full potential. Salvador is currently developing Origami-based robotics for applications in complex manipulation, deployable spacecraft, and biomedical devices.
He received his BS and MS degrees in Mechanical Engineering at California State University, Los Angeles in 2016 and 2018, respectively. He led the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) at Cal State LA and Robotics Lab from 2016-2018. As a Master's student, Salvador focused on research in Dynamics and Controls and led the research team in the development of a wheeled humanoid, a human-based robot with teleoperation capabilities in the push for the expansion in human-robot collaborations. During his undergraduate career, he was a Manufacturing Engineer Co-op at Absolute Technologies Inc. in Yorba Linda, California, and leader in Cal State LA's Formula SAE from 2013-2015.