I just finished my first year of the PhD program at the Australian Centre for Field Robototics at the University of Sydney (Australia). I am currently involved in research on cooperative behavior in mobile robots. My primary interest is in multi-level distributed control architecture capable of giving rise to efficient, robust and non-trivial group behavior. The immediate application area is distributed data fusion, including elements of cooperative exploration, localization and map building. At the low level, the individuals and teams are driven by information. The structure of the higher level organizational control is the focus of the research and is under investigation. My previous academic background is in active structural control (SM from MIT, Cambridge, MA, US).