Naomi Fitter
Associate Professor Of Robotics
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNaomi Fitter is an Associate Professor of Robotics with a decade of experience researching socially assistive robots, haptics, and robots in the arts, currently at Oregon State University and formerly a postdoc at USC’s Interaction Lab. Her PhD from UPenn’s GRASP Lab focused on playful and socially assistive human-robot interaction, and she has a track record of building expressive telepresence hardware, running human-subject studies, and integrating sensing, machine learning, and physical interaction on platforms like PR2 and Baxter. Naomi blends rigorous engineering with teaching across K–graduate levels and practical industry experience from Microsoft Research and Procter & Gamble. Fluent in Spanish and with background in musical and comedy performance as well as community interpreting, she brings a creative, interdisciplinary approach to robot design and education.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS, BA, Mechanical Engineering and Spanish, BS, BA, Mechanical Engineering and Spanish at University of CincinnatiDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) and Master's in Engineering (MSE), Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics and Robotics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) and Master's in Engineering (MSE), Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics and Robotics at University of Pennsylvania
Spanish, English
Github Skills (4)
robot4
ros4
robotics3
expressive2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
nfitter/BaxterFaces
Jun 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 9 pushes in 1 year 8 months
shareresearchteam/baxter-exercise-games
Jun 2019 - Oct 2020
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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