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Adding home page description, teaching experiences, more awards. Assorted reformatting.
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‎_config.yml‎

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# Biographic information
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avatar : "daniel_holding_curvequad_square.JPG"
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name : "Daniel Feshbach"
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pronouns : "he/him/his"
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pronouns : "He/him/his"
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bio : "Robotics and Computational Geometry PhD Student"
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location : "Philadelphia, PA, USA"
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employer : "University of Pennsylvania"

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title: "President Gutmann Leadership Award and Research Council Travel Grant"
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date: 2025-07-30
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award_dates: "July 2025, November 2024, and August 2024"
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awarder: "Graduate and Professional Student Association (GAPSA), University of Pennsylvania"
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description: "Competitive funding awards for travel to present research results. These awards have funded my travel to present my papers at the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) 2025 conference in Montreal, Canada; the 8th International Meeting on Origami in Science, Mathematics and Education (8OSME) in Melbourne, Australia; and the 16th International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR) in Chicago, USA."
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type: "academic"
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---

‎_includes/archive-single-cv.html‎

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{% if post.authors %}<p style="margin: 0.2em 0;">{{ post.authors }}</p>{% endif %}
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<p style="margin: 0.2em 0;">
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{% if post.venue %}{{ post.venue }}{% endif %}{% if post.venue and post.date %}, {% endif %}{% if post.date %}{{ post.date | date: "%Y" }}{% endif %}
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{% if post.venue %}{{ post.venue }}{% endif %}
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{% if post.venue and (post.date or post.semester or post.year) %}, {% endif %}
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{% if post.semester and post.year %}
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{{ post.semester }} {{ post.year }}
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{% elsif post.date %}
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{{ post.date | date: "%Y" }}
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{% endif %}
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‎_includes/archive-single-honor.html‎

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{{ honor.title }}
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<p class="archive__item-excerpt" itemprop="description">
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<strong>{{ honor.awarder }}</strong>, {{ honor.date | date: "%B %Y" }}
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<strong>{{ honor.awarder }}</strong>,
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{% if honor.award_dates %}
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{{ honor.award_dates }}
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{% else %}
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{{ honor.date | date: "%B %Y" }}
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{% endif %}
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{% if honor.description %}
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<br>{{ honor.description }}
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{% endif %}

‎_includes/archive-single-teaching.html‎

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{% include base_path %}
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{% if post.header.teaser %}
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{% capture teaser %}{{ post.header.teaser }}{% endcapture %}
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{% else %}
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{% assign teaser = site.teaser %}
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{% endif %}
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{% if post.id %}
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{% assign title = post.title | markdownify | remove: "<p>" | remove: "</p>" %}
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{% else %}
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{% assign title = post.title %}
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{% endif %}
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<div class="{{ include.type | default: "list" }}__item">
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<article class="archive__item" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/CreativeWork">
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<div style="display: flex; align-items: center; gap: 15px; margin-bottom: 1em;">
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{% if teaser %}
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<div class="archive__item-teaser" style="flex-shrink: 0;">
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<img src=
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{% if teaser contains "://" %}
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"{{ teaser }}"
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{% else %}
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"{{ teaser | prepend: "/images/" | prepend: base_path }}"
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{% endif %}
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alt="{{ title | default: post.title }}" style="width: 300px; height: auto;">
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</div>
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{% endif %}
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<div class="archive__item-content" style="flex-grow: 1;">
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<h2 class="archive__item-title" itemprop="headline" style="margin: 0 0 0.3em 0;">{{ title }}</h2>
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{% if post.job_title %}<p style="margin: 0.1em 0; line-height: 1.2;">{{ post.job_title }}</p>{% endif %}
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{% if post.venue %}<p style="margin: 0.1em 0; line-height: 1.2;">{{ post.venue }}</p>{% endif %}
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{% if post.year %}
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<p style="margin: 0.1em 0; line-height: 1.2;">
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{% if post.start_year %}
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{{ post.start_year }}-{{ post.year }}
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{% else %}
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{{ post.semester }} {{ post.year }}
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{% endif %}
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</p>
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{% elsif post.date %}
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<p style="margin: 0.1em 0; line-height: 1.2;">{{ post.date | date: "%B %Y" }}</p>
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{% endif %}
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I am a PhD student (year 6 of 7) in the [Sung Robotics Lab](https://sung.seas.upenn.edu/) at the University of Pennsylvania. I am interested in the intersections of computational geometry, robot design, motion planning, and engineering education. My main long-term research question is:
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This is Daniel Feshbach's academic webpage. It is currently under construction! It is based on the [academicpages template](https://github.com/academicpages/academicpages.github.io).
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<p class="key-text">What geometric representations best enable algorithms and humans to find mechanism designs and motion plans for robots?</p>
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My current project examines this in the context of designing kinematic linkages for robots, where modelling link shapes as bent tubes allows us to apply path planning techniques to enable automated design and an interactive design tool. This is part of a larger effort towards automating robot design in a staged, modular pipeline: our goal is to enable non-experts to design their own robots and to support engineers in rapidly creating custom robots to meet new needs.
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Previously, I have worked on motion planning based on simple movement abstractions for modular cubes that reconfigure by pivoting and for planar robots with touch-only sensing and unreliable heading. In the future I plan to continue related work in the geometric abstractions for robot design and planning, and to expand into further study of human-computer interaction and education about mechanism design. As part of an upcoming fellowship program for community-engaged research, I will study how students on high school robotics teams learn and use engineering tools such as CAD: I am particularly interested in how they experience their ability to customize designs and how this relates to their self-efficacy and development of STEM identity.
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I am proud to mentor FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) Team 9416, the International Θperatives of World Affairs (I.Θ.W.A) from Bodine High School in Philadelphia.

‎_pages/cv.md‎

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Education
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* PhD Student in Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, 2020-2027
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* Thesis: “Computational Design of Kinematic Robots via Fabricable Tubes”
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* Advisor: Dr. Cynthia Sung
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* MSE in Computer and Information Science earned along the way
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* BS in Computer Science (minor in Mathematics), Haverford College, 2020
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<ul class="cv-compact-list">
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<li>PhD Student in Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, 2020-2027
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<ul class="cv-compact-list">
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<li>Thesis: "Computational Design of Kinematic Robots via Fabricable Tubes"</li>
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<li>Advisor: Dr. Cynthia Sung</li>
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<li>MSE in Computer and Information Science earned along the way</li>
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<li>BS in Computer Science (minor in Mathematics), Haverford College, 2020</li>
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* Summer 2019: Search-Based Planning Lab, Carnegie Mellon University
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* Advisors: Dr. Maxim Likhachev, Shohin Mukherjee
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* Researched multi‑UAV persistent coverage in the Search‑Based Planning Lab.
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Honors and Awards
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<li>Summer 2019: Search-Based Planning Lab, Carnegie Mellon University
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<li>Advisors: Dr. Maxim Likhachev, Shohin Mukherjee</li>
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<li>Researched multi‑UAV persistent coverage in the Search‑Based Planning Lab.</li>
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<li>Developed goal position assignment technique which accounts for the robot's angle when determining desirability and feasibility.</li>
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<li>Summer 2018: Applied Computational Robotics REU, University of South Carolina
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<li>Advisor: Dr. Jason O'Kane (now at Texas A&M)</li>
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<li>Developed graph generation approach for the state space of an unreliable, minimal‑sensing robot for coverage planning.</li>
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<li>Summer 2017-Spring 2018: CS Research Assistant, Haverford College
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<li>Used Chapel iterators to express optimizations of array codes with runtime verification of data flow correctness.</li>
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<li>Python: numpy, matplotlib, pyqt, roboticstoolbox</li>
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<li>C++</li>
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<li>Arduino</li>
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