Kirstin Petersen - Associate Professor

Kirstin Petersen

Associate Professor

City of Ithaca, New York, United States

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Kirstin Petersen is an Associate Professor at Cornell University specializing in the design and coordination of large robot collectives, with eight years of focused academic experience and a PhD in Robotics from Harvard. Her work bridges swarm intelligence, embodied intelligence, autonomous construction, bio-cyber physical systems, and soft robotics, often drawing direct inspiration from social insects to achieve emergent group behaviors beyond single-robot capabilities. She has a track record of building and testing physical robot platforms and novel actuators from her postdoctoral work at Max Planck and academic fellowship experience at Harvard’s Self-Organizing Systems group. Based in Ithaca, Kirstin combines hands-on hardware design (from robotic fish to soft actuators) with theoretical coordination frameworks, making her research both experimentally grounded and biologically informed.

8 years of coding experience

9 years of employment as a software developer

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Robotics / Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Robotics / Computer Science at Harvard University

Master's Degree, Modern Artificial Intelligence, Master's Degree, Modern Artificial Intelligence at Syddansk Universitet

Bachelor's Degree, Elechtrotechnical, Bachelor's Degree, Elechtrotechnical at Odense University College of Engineering

Danish, English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, French

Github Skills (2)

intelligent9

javascript7

Programming languages (2)

CPython

Github contributions (5)

CEI-lab/ece3400-2017

Jul 2017 - Jan 2022

Contributions:575 commits, 561 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months

ecejavascriptphysicalweb-pageintelligent

CEI-lab/ece3400-2018

Aug 2018 - Dec 2018

Contributions:364 commits, 338 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months

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