James McLurkin

James McLurkin (born in 1972) is an engineering assistant professor at Rice University specializing in swarm robotics. He appeared on Nova on PBS. In addition, he is a winner of the 2003 Lemelson-MIT Prize and completed his Ph.D. in computer science in May 2008 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He earned his master's degree in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley.