ROBOTICS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor at Cornell Tech
Angelique Taylor is an Assistant Professor at Cornell Tech and in the Information Science Department at Cornell University. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of California San Diego in 2021. Also, she received a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2015 and her A.S. in Engineering Science from Saint Louis Community College in 2012. Her research lies at the intersection of robotics, computer vision, and artificial intelligence. Her lab builds intelligent systems to support people in their everyday lives, and in safety-critical environments (i.e., healthcare) to improve human-human interactions using robots, and augmented and reality human mounted displays. Prior to Cornell, Angelique worked as a Visiting Research Scientist at Meta Reality Labs. She is the recipient of several awards, including being a National Science Foundation, Google Award for Inclusion Research, Arthur J. Schmitt Presidential Fellow, GEM Fellow, Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholar, National Center for Women in Information Technology (NCWIT), Microsoft Dissertation Grant, and Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC) Scholar.
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- Assistant Professor in Human Centered Design
Dr. Kao is an Assistant Professor in Human Centered Design, with graduate field faculty appointments in Information Science, and Electrical & Computer Engineering at Cornell University. She founded and directs the Hybrid Body Lab. Her research practice themed Hybrid Body Craft blends cultural and social perspectives into the design of on-body interfaces. The goal is to shift towards more inclusive and diverse designs for emerging soft wearable technologies, which often appear in the form of smart tattoos and close-body textiles. Kao also develops novel digital fabrication processes for crafting technology close to the body.
Dr. Britney Schmidt and her team develop robotic tools and instruments as well as use spacecraft to study planets. Exploring Earth's ice shelves and glaciers and the oceans beneath them, Schmidt's interdisciplinary team of scientists and engineers helps to capture the impacts of changing climate on the Earth, while understanding processes that might be ongoing on Ocean Worlds like Jupiter's moon Europa. Schmidt's long history of NASA spacecraft involvement includes the Europa Clipper mission, which launched in 2024, and the Dawn mission, which orbited the protoplanet Vesta and the dwarf planet Ceres. She has also been involved with studies of missions to land on Europa and Enceladus, and the LUVOIR Space Telescope (now Habitable Worlds Observer).
She has conducted nine field seasons in Antarctica and three in the Arctic, leading large science and technology programs. Her team's most recent projects have deployed the Icefin vehicle, built in her lab, to explore underneath the McMurdo and Ross Ice Shelves (NASA project RISE UP) and Thwaites Glacier, one of the fastest changing glaciers in Antarctica (NERC-NSF ITGC), published in Nature in February, 2023. Starting in March 2025 through 2027, Icefin will conduct three seasons exploring and testing technology in Wostenholme Fjord, Greenland through NASA project SSHOW UP and a Heising Simons grant. She is an Associate Professor in the Earth & Atmospheric Sciences and Astronomy Departments and a field member in AE.
Dr. Cara M. Nunez is an Assistant Professor in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University. Prior to this, she was a Cornell Provost Faculty Fellow and conducted her fellowship at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences as a member of the Biorobotics Laboratory, the Microrobotics Laboratory, and the Move Lab. She received a Ph.D. in Bioengineering and a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University working in the Collaborative Haptics and Robotics in Medicine Lab in 2021 and 2018, respectively. She was a visiting researcher in the Haptic Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in 2019-2020. She received a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering and a B.A. in Spanish as a part of the International Engineering Program from the University of Rhode Island in 2016. She was a recipient of the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Graduate Research Fellowship, the Stanford Centennial Teaching Assistant Award, and the Stanford Community Impact Award and served as the Student Activities Committee Chair for the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society from 2020-2022. Her research interests include robotics, haptics, and human-centered design for medical applications, human-machine interaction, augmented and virtual reality, and STEM education, among others.