Outstanding TA Award
03/05/2024: Another huge congratulations to Jonathan Jaramillo for being recognized with the Cornell ECE Outstanding TA Award for 2023-24 academic year from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Jonathan received this award in recognition of his excellent performance in TAing the 4/5000-level class on Fast Robots, and for teaching it in 2024.
Graduate Student of the Year
03/05/2024: Big congratulations to Jonathan Jaramillo for being recognized with the Cornell University Diversity in Engineering’s Graduate Student of the Year award! He received this award in recognition of his excellent scholarship and his outstanding contribution to the environment at Cornell. Jonathan successfully defended his PhD thesis in December 2024, and is slated to receive his doctorate this Summer.
GEM fellowship
13/12/2023: Huge congratulations to PhD student Lydia Calderón Aceituno for being awarded the GEM fellowship for her work with stigmergic coordination in honey bees and robots!
MEng Poster Award
4/12/23: Big congratulations to Ryan Chan for winning the Cornell ECE MEng Poster Award in the AI / Pattern Recognition category for his work on the “Autonomous Wave Robot for Digging and Building”!
Tenure!
23/11/1: Kirstin Petersen is promoted to Associate Professor with indefinite tenure at Cornell University!
SHPE & OSTEM
23/10/27: Big congratulations to graduate student Lydia Calderon for being chosen to represent Cornell at the annual convention for the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers and the 13th annual Out in STEM Conference!
IROS 2023
23/10/1-5: Find us at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) in Detroit, where CEI-lab alumni Steven Ceron is co-organizing a workshop on Swarms Across the Scales, and graduate student Heather Jin Hee Kim is presenting on Robotic Barrier Construction through Weaved, Inflatable Tubes as part of a collaboration between the CEI-lab and the Hybrid Body Lab!
PLOS Biology
27/07/23: Very excited that our latest work in collaboration with the Napp lab and the Smith Bee lab and many others, on construction of distributed construction of hexagonal comb across honey bees and social wasps came out in PLOS Biology today, and got media coverage in Science!
R:SS 2023 Workshop talk
14/7/23: If you’re at the Conference of Robotics: Science and Systems, we hope you will join us for an invited talk by Kirstin Petersen at the Workshop for Translational Soft Robots in successful Real-World Applications, on “Harnessing Nonuniform Pressure Distributions to Achieve Complex Motions with Soft Robots”.
SFI Symposium
20-23/6/23: Dr. Alexandra Nilles and alumni Dr. Steven Ceron presents at the “Collective Intelligence: Foundations and Radical Ideas” Symposium at the Santa Fe Institute – and won the Best Poster Award!
