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Kirstin Hagelskjaer Petersen is an Associate Professor at Cornell University, focusing on the integration of hardware and software to achieve advanced autonomy in robot collectives. Her research is inspired by natural swarms, such as ants and bees, which exhibit sophisticated, scalable behaviors. Petersen’s work explores principles that enable robots to interact with their environment and with each other to create collective behaviors. Current themes in her research include collective robotic construction, human-swarm interaction, soft robot collectives, and biological swarms. She completed her postdoctoral work at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and has been a fellow at the Max Planck ETH Center for Learning Systems. Petersen earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Harvard University in 2014 and has previously studied Computer Systems Engineering at the University of Southern Denmark and Electro-technical Engineering at Odense University College of Engineering.
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