Summary
Sara Cooper is a research scientist and robotics software engineer with eight years' experience building social robots for healthcare and assistive settings. She blends biomedical engineering and an MSc in Robotics to design user-centered human-robot interaction, shipping ROS-based systems in C++ and Python for projects like SHAPES and SPRING. Her work spans hands-on development (ARI, TIAGo, Haru, Pepper) to project management and dissemination across EU and international collaborations, and she has led efforts to adapt robots for autism therapy and elder care. Comfortable bridging research and product needs, she pairs deep technical skills with practical deployment experience and a track record of delivering low-cost, ethically informed robotic solutions.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Biomedical Engineering, Bachelor's degree Biomedical Engineering at Mondragon Unibertsitatea
Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh Campus
Deep Learning Nanodegree, Deep Learning Nanodegree at Udacity
English, Basque, Japanese, Spanish