Aykut C. SATICI is an assistant professor in the Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering department at the Boise State Unviersity, directing the Robot Control Laboratory (RCL). He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and M.Sc. in Mathematics from the University of Texas at Dallas in 2014 and 2013, respectively. Previously, he had received his MSc. and B.Sc. in Mechatronics Engineering from Sabanci University in 2010 and 2008, respectively. He has held postdoctral scholar positions at the PRISMA Lab of University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. His research aims to enable robots to efficiently and robustly perform desired manipulation and locomotion tasks by designing low-level feedback control and estimation algorithms. This avenue of research lies in the intersection of dynamical systems, robotics, control, and applied mathematics. Tools from analysis, optimization, and differential geometry are integral to the tehoretical development of my research, which I like to complement with experimental evaluation to assess its practical utility. He has an Erdős number of 4.