Steve is interested in understanding dynamics in biology, and take a “build it to understand it approach” using robotics, control, and machine learning. Before Cornell, he worked in the Biomimetic Robotics Lab at MIT for three and a half years. Additionally, he joined the Dynamic Locomotion Group at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) in Stuttgart, Germany to do his PhD with Alexander Badri-Spröwitz.