Associate Professor Kevin Galloway

United States Naval Academy
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
105 Maryland Avenue
Annapolis, MD 21402-5025

Telephone: (410) 293-6169
Fax: (410) 293-3493  
E-Mail: kgallowa@usna.edu

Welcome! I am an Associate Professor in the Electrical & Computer Engineering department at the U.S. Naval Academy. My research interests are focused on the control of coordinated motions for nonlinear systems, such as collective control of groups/swarms of autonomous agents, and biped locomotion. Check out my Research page for details, as well as my Google Scholar page.

News

• 03/2021: I gave a talk on "Pursuit and Flocking in Robot Networks" for the March 12 University of Maryland ECE Department Booz Allen Hamilton Distinguished Colloquium. 
• 03/2020: I was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure! I'm excited for the opportunity to continue to serve at the U.S. Naval Academy
• 02/2020: My work with Biswadip Dey on "Beacon-referenced pursuit for collective motion in three dimensions" has been published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A. (See publications page for details on the journal article.)

Degrees

Ph. D., University of Maryland, 2011

• Advisor: Prof. P. S. Krishnaprasad;  Co-advisor: Dr. Eric W. Justh

• Dissertation topic: Cyclic Pursuit: Symmetry, Reduction and Nonlinear Dynamics

B.S., U.S. Naval Academy, 1997

Professional Experience

Associate Professor, U.S. Naval Academy
Post-doc, University of Michigan (with Prof. Jessy Grizzle), 2011-2013
Instructor, U.S. Naval Academy, 2002-2004
Assistant Operations Officer, Amphibious Squadron Seven aboard USS BOXER (LHD-4), 2000-2002
Strike Officer, USS STETHEM (DDG-63), 1998-2000