Ezra Systems Seminar: Cara M. Nunez (Cornell MAE)

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Bio:
Cara M. Nunez is an assistant professor in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University. Prior to this, she was a Cornell Provost Faculty Fellow and conducted her fellowship at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences as a member of the Biorobotics Laboratory, the Microrobotics Laboratory, and the Move Lab.

Prof. Nunez received a Ph.D. in bioengineering and a M.S. in mechanical engineering from Stanford University working in the Collaborative Haptics and Robotics in Medicine Lab in 2021 and 2018, respectively. She was a visiting researcher in the Haptic Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in 2019-2020. She received a B.S. in biomedical engineering and a B.A. in Spanish as a part of the International Engineering Program from the University of Rhode Island in 2016.

Prof. Nunez was a recipient of the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Graduate Research Fellowship, the Stanford Centennial Teaching Assistant Award, and the Stanford Community Impact Award and served as the Student Activities Committee Chair for the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society from 2020-2022.

Her research interests include robotics, haptics, and human-centered design for medical applications, human-machine interaction, augmented and virtual reality, and STEM education, among others.