Andrew L. Nelson was born Laramie Wyoming in 1967. He received his B.S. degree with concentration in Computer Science from the Evergreen State College in Olympia Washington in 1990. He received his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University in 2000. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the Center for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (CRIM) at North Carolina State University in 2003. Between 2003 and 2005 he was a visiting researcher at the University of South Florida. Currently he is a researcher in the Androtics Research Group, Tucson AZ and Santa Cruz Ca. His main interests are in the fields of fully autonomous robot control, bio-inspired robot control and evolutionary robotics. His robotics work has included applying artificial evolution to synthesize controllers for swarms of robots in a competitive environment as well as the development of a fuzzy-logic based controller for robot navigation. He pursues work in artificial neural networks, genetic algorithms and soft computing related to autonomous machine control. He has also conducted research in diverse fields including electric machine design and molecular biology.