Katie Winkle
Assistant Professor at Uppsala University
Bristol, England, Sweden
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Top SchoolKatie Winkle is an Assistant Professor in Social Robotics at Uppsala University with a decade of experience designing and engineering human-robot interaction, participatory design, and interactive machine learning for socially assistive systems. Her work spans robot ethics and feminist HRI, exploring how robots influence norms and behavior while incorporating human teaching into automation. Trained with a PhD in Robotics from the University of Bristol and hands-on industry experience at Jaguar Land Rover, she blends rigorous empirical research with practical product development instincts. Katie’s background includes postdoctoral research at KTH and a PhD focused on expert-informed design of persuasive robots, giving her a unique perspective on combining design, ethics, and technical automation. Based in Bristol and Sweden, she is known for translating nuanced social science questions into deployable robotic interventions and participatory methodologies.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (MEng), Mechanical Engineering, First Class with Honours, Master of Engineering (MEng), Mechanical Engineering, First Class with Honours at University of BristolDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Robotics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Robotics at University of Bristol & University of the West of EnglandDocent, Docent at Uppsala University
English, Swedish
Github Skills (4)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
kwinkle/kwinkle.github.io
Jun 2020 - Nov 2024
Contributions:106 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
kwinkle/Dissertation
May 2016 - Apr 2019
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
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