Hod Lipson is Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Cornell University. Among his research interests is the building of machines able to simulate, design and make other machines, (actively) learning from experiments to close the Reality Gap. He received many awards including the NSF Career and Darpa Awards.

Hod Lipson hold his PhD from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and he spent several years as a research engineer in the mechanical, electronic and software industries. He has had research positions at Brandeis University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at the crossroad of Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering.