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Hadas Kress-Gazit is the Geoffrey S.M. Hedrick Senior Endowed Professor at the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, and Associate Dean for Diversity in Academic Affairs within Cornell’s College of Engineering. She received her Ph.D. in Electrical Systems Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 2008. Her research focuses on formal methods for robotics automation, particularly in the synthesis of robot controllers for complex high-level tasks. Kress-Gazit's research group investigates various types of robotic systems, including modular robots and soft robots, while integrating concepts from communities such as robotics, formal methods, control, hybrid systems, and computational linguistics. Among her accolades are the NSF CAREER award in 2010, the DARPA Young Faculty Award in 2012, and the Excellence in Teaching awards from Cornell Engineering in 2013 and 2019. She has held leadership roles in several prestigious robotics organizations and conferences, fostering advancement in the field.
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