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Professor of Computer Science & Engineering
Billie J. Ball Endowed Professor in Engineering
Director of the Social, Therapeutic, and Robotic Systems (STaRS) Lab
I am surprised and honored to be selected as one of The Top 50 Women Leaders of Mississippi for 2024
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11/04/2024
I am so honored to be selected as one of the “2020 World’s 50 Most Renowned Women in Robotics” by Analytics Insight Congratulations to all of the amazing women selected past and present!
06/24/2020
Announcements
It has been an honor to be selected and to serve as a IPA Program Director with the National Science Foundation in the CISE/IIS Human-Centered Computing Cluster
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10/11/2022 - Present
MY LATEST RESEARCH
I have been working since 2011 with the integration of robots with tactical teams. We are making an impact and the officers are becoming more accepting of the possibility of using robots in their responses. Here is a link to a video of some of our work.
We are just about completed with the second version of the Therabot prototype. We are currently adding in new sensors and response behaviors. We expect to post a video soon on the Therabot website. User studies are expected to continue this fall.
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