2026 Daniel I. Goldman: Engineering and Technology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Engineering and Technology	57	2701	2582	824	749	354	10472

Overview

Daniel I. Goldman is affiliated with the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on engineering, with extensive contributions spanning several subfields.

The main fields of study for Daniel I. Goldman include:

Engineering

The subfields within engineering that Goldman has contributed to are:

Biomedical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Condensed Matter Physics
Computational Mechanics
Aerospace Engineering

Goldman's work covers a wide range of topics in robotics and related fields. The main topics of their research are:

Robotic Locomotion and Control
Micro and Nano Robotics
Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence
Biomimetic flight and propulsion mechanisms
Soft Robotics and Applications
Granular flow and fluidized beds
Prosthetics and Rehabilitation Robotics

Among the recent scholarly articles authored or co-authored by Goldman are:

"Controlling subterranean forces enables a fast, steerable, burrowing soft robot" (2021, Science Robotics)
"Bio-inspired geotechnical engineering: principles, current work, opportunities and challenges" (2021, Géotechnique)
"Self-reconfigurable multilegged robot swarms collectively accomplish challenging terradynamic tasks" (2021, Science Robotics)
"Emergent Field-Driven Robot Swarm States" (2021, Physical Review Letters)
"Collective dynamics in entangled worm and robot blobs" (2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

Frequent co-authors in Goldman's publications include:

Baxi Chong
Yasemin Ozkan-Aydin
Daniel Soto
Kelimar Diaz
Jennifer M. Rieser

The main venues where Goldman's research has been published are:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Science Robotics
Journal of Experimental Biology

Goldman has also authored book publications, including:

"When You Pass Over My Tomb" (2024, Methuen Drama eBooks)

Best Publications

A terradynamics of legged locomotion on granular media.

Chen Li;Chen Li;Tingnan Zhang;Daniel I. Goldman

504
Citations
Undulatory swimming in sand: subsurface locomotion of the sandfish lizard.

Ryan D. Maladen;Yang Ding;Chen Li;Daniel I. Goldman

467
Citations
Sidewinding with minimal slip: Snake and robot ascent of sandy slopes

Hamidreza Marvi;Chaohui Gong;Nick Gravish;Henry Astley

298
Citations
A review on locomotion robophysics: the study of movement at the intersection of robotics, soft matter and dynamical systems

Jeffrey Aguilar;Tingnan Zhang;Feifei Qian;Mark Kingsbury

295
Citations
Active tails enhance arboreal acrobatics in geckos

Ardian Jusufi;Daniel I. Goldman;Shai Revzen;Robert J. Full

294
Citations
Scaling and dynamics of sphere and disk impact into granular media.

Daniel I. Goldman;Paul B. Umbanhowar

265
Citations
Dynamics of rapid vertical climbing in cockroaches reveals a template

Daniel I. Goldman;Tao S. Chen;Daniel M. Dudek;Robert J. Full

265
Citations
Sensitive dependence of the motion of a legged robot on granular media

Chen Li;Paul B. Umbanhowar;Haldun Komsuoglu;Daniel E. Koditschek

255
Citations
Dynamics of drag and force distributions for projectile impact in a granular medium

Massimo Pica Ciamarra;Antonio H. Lara;Andrew T. Lee;Daniel I. Goldman

230
Citations
Distributed mechanical feedback in arthropods and robots simplifies control of rapid running on challenging terrain

Spagna Jc;Goldman Di;Lin Pc;Koditschek De

225
Citations
Stationary state volume fluctuations in a granular medium.

Matthias Schröter;Daniel I. Goldman;Harry L. Swinney

210
Citations
Mechanical models of sandfish locomotion reveal principles of high performance subsurface sand-swimming

Ryan D. Maladen;Yang Ding;Paul B. Umbanhowar;Adam Kamor

208
Citations
Drag induced lift in granular media.

Yang Ding;Nick Gravish;Daniel I. Goldman

185
Citations
Robotics in scansorial environments

Kellar Autumn;Martin Buehler;Mark Cutkosky;Ronald S. Fearing

171
Citations
Controlling subterranean forces enables a fast, steerable, burrowing soft robot

Nicholas D. Naclerio;Andras Karsai;Mason Murray-Cooper;Yasemin Ozkan-Aydin

166
Citations
Granular impact and the critical packing state

Paul B. Umbanhowar;Daniel I. Goldman

157
Citations
Entangled granular media.

Nick Gravish;Scott V. Franklin;David L. Hu;Daniel I. Goldman

156
Citations
Bio-inspired Geotechnical Engineering: Principles, Current Work, Opportunities and Challenges

Alejandro Martinez;Jason DeJong;Idil Akin;Ali Aleali

152
Citations
Force and flow transition in plowed granular media

Nick Gravish;Paul B. Umbanhowar;Daniel I. Goldman

150
Citations
The effectiveness of resistive force theory in granular locomotiona)

Tingnan Zhang;Daniel I. Goldman

135
Citations
The RiSE Climbing Robot: Body and Leg Design

Aaron Saunders;Daniel I. Goldman;Robert J. Full;Martin Buehler

117
Citations
Persistent holes in a fluid.

Florian S. Merkt;Robert D. Deegan;Daniel I. Goldman;Erin C. Rericha

117
Citations
Beneath Our Feet: Strategies for Locomotion in Granular Media

A.E. Hosoi;Daniel I. Goldman

111
Citations
Robophysical study of jumping dynamics on granular media

Jeffrey Aguilar;Daniel I. Goldman

111
Citations
Design of a Bio-Inspired Dynamical Vertical Climbing Robot

Jonathan E. Clark;Daniel I. Goldman;Pei-Chun Lin;Goran Lynch

108
Citations