Andrew Petruska is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics at Colorado School of Mines in Golden, CO, USA. His primary research focus is on the control of complex dynamic systems with an emphasis on magnetic manipulation for medical applications. He obtained his PhD in 2014 from the University of Utah and performed his postdoctoral studies at ETH Zurich, where he was named a Max Planck ETH Center for Learning Systems fellow. In 2017, he was named a Boettcher Investigator for his work on magnetic manipulation for neurosurgery.