Peter Berkelman is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Hawaii-Manoa. He was with the TIMC-IMAG Laboratory of the Grenoble School of Medicine from 2001 to 2004 and was a postdoctoral research fellow at Johns Hopkins University from 1999 to 2001. He received a PhD in Robotics from the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute in 1999. His current research is in the areas of medical robotics, haptic interfaces, and magnetic levitation.