Presenter

Katherine Driggs-Campbell received the B.S.E. degree (Hons.) from Arizona State University, in 2012, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and computer sciences from the University of California at Berkeley (UC Berkeley), in 2015 and 2017, respectively. After that, she was a Postdoctoral Research Scholar with the Stanford Intelligent Systems Laboratory, Aeronautics and Astronautics Department. She is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, with a courtesy appointment with the Department of Computer Science. She is also affiliated with the Coordinated Science Laboratory, Center for Autonomy, Discovery Partners Institute, and Center for Digital Agriculture. She also runs the Human-Centered Autonomy Laboratory, which aims to design safe autonomous systems and robots that can safely interact with people out in the real-world. Her work draws from the fields of robotics, learning, decision- making & control, and human factors. She was a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award and the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society’s Early Academic Career Award.