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Daniel Drew is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, joining the department in Fall 2024. Prior to UH, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Utah from 2021 to 2024. Earlier, he was a postdoctoral scholar in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University from 2019 to 2021, after receiving his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 2018 and his B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from Virginia Tech in 2013. His current research focuses on the development of autonomous insect-scale robots, adaptive control strategies for effective deployment of multi-robot and multi-sensor systems, and on novel high dexterity continuum robots for microsurgical applications. Daniel has received the University of Utah ECE Department Excellence in Teaching Award, the Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, and Best Paper Award Honorable Mentions at the ACM CHI, IEEE MARSS, and TRF Hilton Head conferences.