About

Aaron M. Johnson is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, with additional appointments in the Robotics Institute and Electrical & Computer Engineering departments. He received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 2014. His research interests are in hybrid systems, state estimation, control, learning, legged robots, and field robotics. He is an ASME Fellow and the recipient of the NSF Career award, the ARO Young Investigator Award, and the Best Paper award at the ICRA Workshop on Legged Robots, among other awards. For the 2025-2026 school year, he is a Visiting Professor and Hans Fischer Fellow at Technical University of Munich (TUM).