Personal Robotics

Join us for the January Seattle AWIS event, where we welcome Dr. Taylor Kessler Faulkner, a leading researcher from the UW Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering, to explore the exciting world of personal robotics. Dr. Kessler Faulkner will discuss her team’s latest innovations in robotics that bring technology closer to everyday life, from assisting in household tasks to enhancing healthcare support. Discover how personal robotics is transforming interactions between humans and machines and learn about the new horizons in this rapidly advancing field. Don’t miss this inspiring session!

## Meet the Speaker

Taylor Kessler Faulkner is a lecturer in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington (UW). She recently finished a postdoc as a UW Data Science Postdoctoral Fellow in Siddhartha Srinivasa's Personal Robotics Lab at UW, after receiving a PhD in Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin where she was an NSF Graduate Research Fellow with Prof. Andrea Thomaz in the Socially Intelligent Machines Lab. Taylor received her B.S. in Computer Science from Denison University in 2016, with minors in Mathematics and Music Performance.
Taylor is currently teaching ECE P 545, a course on mobile autonomous robots for professional master's students. Taylor's research spans a wide range of human-robot interaction and machine-learning topics. Her postdoctoral work focused on assistive robotics, specifically the Assistive Dextrous Arm (ADA), an assistive feeding robot for people with upper-extremity mobility impairments. Her PhD thesis work was based on robots learning from imperfect human teachers using interactive reinforcement learning.

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