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Dr. Nikhil Chopra is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park, with an affiliate appointment in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Before joining the University of Maryland, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 2006-2007. He received a Bachelor of Technology (Honors) degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, in 2001, an M.S. degree in General Engineering in 2003, and a Ph.D. degree in Systems and Entrepreneurial Engineering in 2006 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research is broadly in systems, control, and robotics. Current research interests include the estimation and control of robotic systems, soft robotics, bilateral teleoperation, and machine learning. He is the co-author of the book Passivity-Based Control and Estimation Networked Robotics. He was previously the Co-Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Telerobotics. He was previously an Associate Editor of Automatica, IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, and IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.