Patrick Wensing is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame where he directs the Robotics, Optimization, and Assistive Mobility (ROAM) lab. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The Ohio State University in 2014, and completed Postdoctoral training at MIT in 2017 where he worked on control system design for the MIT Cheetah robots. His current research interests include aspects of dynamics, optimization, and control toward advancing the mobility of legged robots and assistive devices. He serves as the Co-Chair for the IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Model-Based Optimization for Robotics and also serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Robotics. Dr. Wensing received the NSF CAREER Award in 2020.