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Katherine Skinner joins NAME department as Assistant Professor

EXPERTS: Katherine Skinner has accepted the offer of Assistant Professor and will join the faculty in September of 2021. Katherine Skinner received a B.S.E. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering with a Certificate in Applications of Computing from Princeton University in 2014, an M.S. in Robotics from the University of Michigan in 2016, and a PhD […]

Written by: Nicole Panyard

September 24, 2019

portraitKatherine Skinner
Assistant Professor, Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering

EXPERTS:

Katherine Skinner has accepted the offer of Assistant Professor and will join the faculty in September of 2021.

Katherine Skinner received a B.S.E. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering with a Certificate in Applications of Computing from Princeton University in 2014, an M.S. in Robotics from the University of Michigan in 2016, and a PhD in Robotics from the University of Michigan in 2019. She has held appointments at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the Australian Centre for Field Robotics and is a recipient of the NSF EAPSI Fellowship.

Her research interests span robotics, machine learning, and computer vision, with a focus on enabling autonomy in dynamic, unstructured, or remote environments.


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