Daniela Rus
Biography
Daniela Rus has made fundamental contributions to the science and engineering of autonomy, with a special focus on robotic interactions. Her work is enabling a future in which machines are pervasively integrated into the fabric of life. She has significantly advanced the ability of machines to reason, learn, and adapt to complex tasks in human-centered environments. The applications of her work include transportation, manufacturing, agriculture, underwater exploration, smart cities, and in-home tasks like cooking. Her recent work focused on computational design and fabrication of robots, as well as safe learning-based control for adaptation to changing conditions place her at the leading edge of her field.
An IEEE Fellow, Rus is the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor and director of CSAIL, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
