Robin Murphy
Biography
Robin Roberson Murphy is an American computer scientist and roboticist known for founding the field of rescue robotics.
She was raised in Georgia and received a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1980. After working in the process safety industry, she returned to Georgia Tech for a masters in 1988 and a PhD in 1992, the first person to graduate from Georgia Tech with a PhD in robotics. She was an assistant professor at the Colorado School of Mines, then an associate professor at the University of South Florida, and became a full professor in 2003. In 2008 she moved to Texas A&M University.
After the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, Murphy began researching disaster robotics and became the director of the Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue from 2002 to 2018, and is currently the Vice-President. The first major use of the technology was during 9/11, and it has been used in 27 major disasters since. These include Hurricane Katrina, the Fukishima Daiichi nuclear accident, the Tōhoku tsunami, the Syrian Boat Refugee crisis, and Hurricane Harvey.
Further Reading
https://robohub.org/author/robin-murphy/
https://awards.acm.org/award-winners/MURPHY_3201472
