Paul Robinette
Assistant Professor at University of Massachusetts Lowell
Greater Boston United States
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Top SchoolPaul Robinette is an assistant professor and robotics researcher with a PhD from Georgia Tech and nine years of postdoctoral experience building and evaluating autonomous systems for real-world operations. He bridges field robotics and human-centered study design, having led large-scale evacuation and trust experiments with over 2,000 participants and developed behaviors for UAV swarms and autonomous surface vehicles at MIT. His work blends rigorous statistical evaluation, embedded systems engineering, and virtual-environment prototyping (Unity/C#), enabling both lab and lake deployments of multi-robot teams. As a former co-founder and hands-on engineer, he also brings product-oriented experience in hardware, manufacturing, and small-business management. Based in Greater Boston, he studies not only how robots perform but how people systematically overtrust them in high-stakes situations—a counterintuitive finding that informs safer human-robot collaboration.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Robotics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Robotics at Georgia Institute of TechnologyComputer Engineering and Physics, Computer Engineering and Physics at Missouri University of Science and TechnologyProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
UML-EECE-5560/eece5560-base
Sep 2020 - Nov 2022
Contributions:35 commits, 29 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 3 months
paulrobinette/eece5560-base
Sep 2020 - Sep 2023
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes in 3 years
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