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Cara M. Nunez is an Assistant Professor in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University. She is a recipient of the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Graduate Research Fellowship. Nunez completed her Ph.D. in Bioengineering and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University, where she worked in the Collaborative Haptics and Robotics Medicine Lab. She also served as a visiting researcher in the Haptic Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems from 2019 to 2020. Nunez received her B.S. in Biomedical Engineering and B.A. in Spanish as part of the International Engineering Program at the University of Rhode Island in 2016. During her academic career, she has been recognized with several awards, including the Stanford Centennial Teaching Assistant Award and the Stanford Community Impact Award. Nunez chaired the Student Activities Committee of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society from 2020 to 2022. Her research interests span robotics, haptics, human-centered design for medical applications, human-machine interaction, and augmented and virtual reality, with a strong emphasis on STEM education.
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