Andrew B. Williams, Ph.D.

Andrew B. Williams, Ph.D.
Chair and Associate Professor
Director, Humanoid Engineering and Robot Systems (HERS) Lab
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
Spelman College
williams at spelman.edu
http://www.spelman.edu/~williams

Research and Teaching Interests
My research and teaching interests are in distributed artificial intelligence, autonomous agents and multi-agent systems, multi-robot teams and humanoid robotics.

Education

SpelBots on CNN
The SpelBots Co-Captains, Jonecia Keels and Jazmine Miller, were on CNN Saturday Morning live to discuss their prize winning iPhone App, HBCU Buddy, and the SpelBots robotics team. They won the 2010 AT&T Big Mobile on Campus Challenge. Past winners were from Harvard University and Stanford University.

SpelBots on CNN

SpelBots Robotics Team
I founded and continue to coach the SpelBots Robotics Team, the first all-women and African American undergraduate team to compete in the International RoboCup Four-Legged Soccer Competition in Osaka, Japan (2005) and Bremen, Germany (2006). We earned 2nd place in the RoboCup 2007 Atlanta Technical Challenge Passing Challenge event. In 2009 we accomplished a tie in the Championship match of the RoboCup Japan Open 2009 Osaka Standard Platform League Nao Humanoid robot soccer competition. We also successfully participated in the RoboCup 2010 Mediterranean Open. Watch the video highlights from our 2009 participation:

Advancing Technology for Societal Impact (ARTSI) Alliance
I am the founding Principal Investigator and Director for the ARTSI Alliance, an NSF Sponsored Program for spreading robotics to students and faculty at HBCUs. ARTSI is an alliance of HBCUs and research institutions that develop educational and research projects centered around robotics. Find out more at http://www.artsialliance.org


Book: "Out of the Box: Building Robots, Transforming Lives"
Dr. Williams' inspirational book, "Out of the Box: Building Robots, Transforming Lives", can be purchased on Amazon.com. More info on his book is found at www.andrewbwilliams.com