Acadia 2016 Paper
11/10/2016: Paper on mechanically intelligent swarms creating two-dimensional structures according to user-specified properties, presented by Petra Jenning at the Acadia Conference 2016.
NERC 2016
30/10/2016: NorthEast Robotics Colloquium at Cornell. Eugene and Lawrence present their work on Spider-Insired Jumping Robots, and Kirstin gives a keynote speech on Construction by Robot Collectives.
CS Field Membership
21/10/2016: Kirstin is voted in to the Field of Computer Science at Cornell.
ELI Research Award
29/9/16: Congratulations to Sam Rosenstein for receiving the Engineering Learning Initiatives Award for his work on automated software to study social insects!
Assistant Professor
1/8/2016: Kirstin starts as Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University, New York.
Member of Max Planck ETH
01/08/2015: Kirstin becomes a member of the Max Planck ETH Center for Learning Systems.
Among the top 10 scientific breakthroughs of 2014!
18/12/2014: Work on collective construction robots and Kilobots voted among the top 10 scientific breakthroughs of 2014 by Science.
Starting Postdoctoral Position
22/10/2014: Kirstin starts a postdoctoral position with Director Metin Sitti in the Physical Intelligence Department at Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany.
Ph.D. Defense
14/9/2016: Kirstin defends her Ph.D. with Professor Radhika Nagpal in the SSR-lab at Harvard University and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering.
Paper published in Science
02/14/2014: Paper on termite-inspired robot construction teams appear in and on the cover of Science. http://science.sciencemag.org/content/343/6172/754
