Dr. Hadas Kress Gazit

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Biography

Hadas Kress-Gazit is the Geoffrey S.M. Hedrick Senior Endowed Professor of the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University and serves as the Associate Dean for Diversity in Academic Affairs in Cornell’s College of Engineering. She earned her Ph.D. in Electrical Systems Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 2008 and became part of Cornell in 2009. Her research centers on formal methods in robotics and automation, particularly focusing on the automated synthesis of robot controllers for complex high-level tasks. Kress-Gazit’s group investigates various types of robotic systems, including modular and soft robots, as well as swarms, while integrating ideas from robotics, formal methods, control, hybrid systems, and computational linguistics. She has received the NSF CAREER award in 2010, the DARPA Young Faculty Award in 2012, and several teaching and research excellence awards from Cornell Engineering. Kress-Gazit is an IEEE Fellow and has held leadership roles in the robotics community, including program chair for Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) in 2018 and the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in 2022.

Research Interests

Awards

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Outstanding Research Award

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Fellow

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Named Women Robotics

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Kenneth Goldman '71 Teaching Award

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Systems Paper, Finalist

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Participant

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Fiona Ip Li '78 Donald Li '75 Excellence Teaching Award

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Early Career Spotlight

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DARPA Young Faculty Award

Requirements for Cornell University

Master Program
Requirements
TOEFL
Listening
Required:15
Reading
Required:20
Writing
Required:20
Speaking
Required:22
Total
Required:100
IELTS
Overall
Required:7
Prerequisites
Bachelor's degree in Architecture or related field
Application Checklist
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Specialization Notes

Department of Architecture