Glen Chou was born and raised in Northern California. After earning dual B.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley in 2017, where he worked with Claire Tomlin and Anca Dragan, Glen left the eternal summer behind to receive an M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2019 and 2022, respectively. At Michigan, he was advised by Necmiye Ozay and Dmitry Berenson. Recently, he was a postdoc at MIT CSAIL, where he work with Russ Tedrake. Glen is a recipient of the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) fellowship and the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, and was named a Robotics: Science and Systems (R:SS) Pioneer in 2022.