Neil T. Dantam is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the
Colorado School of Mines.  His work focuses on robot planning and
manipulation, covering task and motion planning, kinematics, robot
communication, and real-time software.  This research program is
supported by the NSF, NASA, Army Research Lab, and Office of Naval
Research.

Previously, Neil was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Computer
Science at Rice University working with Prof. Lydia Kavraki and
Prof. Swarat Chaudhuri.  Neil received a Ph.D. in Robotics from
Georgia Tech, advised by Prof. Mike Stilman, and B.S. degrees in
Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University. He
has worked at iRobot Research, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and
Raytheon. Neil received the Georgia Tech President's Fellowship, the
Georgia Tech/SAIC paper award, an American Control Conference '12
presentation award, was a Best Paper and Mike Stilman Award finalist
at HUMANOIDS '14, and was a Best Paper in Cognitive Robotics finalist
at IROS '21.