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CU-ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅ names Mark D. Gross as director of ATLAS Institute

The ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅ has named Mark D. Gross as the director of the campus Alliance for Technology, Learning and Society, or the ATLAS Institute.

Gross taught at CU-ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅ from 1990 to 1999 as an assistant and associate professor of architecture, planning and design.

He returns to CU-ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅ for the ATLAS post from Carnegie Mellon University where he has been a professor of computational design since 2004. From 1999 to 2004, Gross was a professor of architecture at the University of Washington in Seattle.

β€œWe are delighted to have Professor Gross return to the ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅ campus as director of ATLAS,” said Robert Davis, dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Science. β€œHe has a great vision for interdisciplinary education and research, which will engage students and faculty from across our campus.”

Gross is the co-founder of two ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅-based companies including Blank Slate Systems, which was founded in 2013 and creates software-based design tools such as a digital sketchpad that allows users to create blueprints for laser cutters. His other company is Modular Robotics, which was established in 2008 and makes robot construction kits for kids.

Gross’ research interests include design methods, modular robotics, computationally enhanced construction kits and crafts, sketch tools and applications, and human interaction with computers as an increasingly common experience in many aspects of the physical world.

In 2009, Gross received a distinguished teaching award from the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture, which cited his efforts to bring women researchers into the field.

Gross has been involved in 33 journal articles, 92 conference papers, 23 invited articles and book chapters, 13 technical papers and more. Gross earned his bachelor’s and doctoral degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The ATLAS Institute is a campuswide initiative to integrate information and communication technology in education, research, creative work and outreach. The Roser ATLAS Building, where the institute is housed, is designed to be an entrepreneurial incubator for interdisciplinary collaboration and has 66,000 square feet of classroom, performance and workroom space.

For more information about ATLAS visit . 

Contact:
Mark Gross
mark.gross@colorado.edu
Elizabeth Lock, CU media relations, 303-492-3117
elizabeth.lock@colorado.edu