Nadia Figueroa, PhD | Source | Shalini & Rajeev Misra Presidential Assistant Professor at University of Penn...

Nadia is a Shalini and Rajeev Misra Presidential Assistant Professor at University of Pennsylvania. Her main research interest focuses on developing human-aware robotic systems: robots that can safely and efficiently interact with humans and the human-centric dynamic spaces we inhabit. This involves research at the intersection of machine learning, control theory, artificial intelligence, perception, and psychology - with a physical human-robot interaction perspective.