Vincent De Sapio is a senior research scientist at HRL Laboratories, California. He has more than 40 publications and 29 patents (issued or pending) in the areas of multibody dynamics, robotics, biomechanics, control theory, and human motion synthesis and simulation. Dr. De Sapio is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and Sigma Xi. He is a founding member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Human Movement Understanding. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. from Stanford University, California and his B.S. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York, all in mechanical engineering.