Hod Lipson

Hod Lipson
Hod Lipson in 2013
Born1967 (age 5758)
Haifa, Israel
NationalityAmerican, Israeli
CitizenshipAmerican
Alma materTechnion (B.Sc. 1989, Ph.D. 1998)
Known forFab@Home, Self aware robots, self replicating robots
Scientific career
FieldsRobotics, Artificial Intelligence, Mechanical Engineering
InstitutionsMIT, Brandeis University, Cornell, Columbia
Doctoral advisorMoshe Shpitalni

Hod Lipson (born 1967) is an Israeli - American robotics engineer. He is the director of Columbia University's Creative Machines Lab. Lipson's work focuses on evolutionary robotics, design automation, rapid prototyping, artificial life, and creating machines that can demonstrate some aspects of human creativity. His publications have been cited more than 43,000 times, and he has an h-index of 86, as of 12 April 2023. Lipson is interviewed in the 2018 documentary on artificial intelligence Do You Trust This Computer?