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Maja J. Mataric

Robotics expert specializing in assistive, humanoid and team robotics

Senior associate dean for Research, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Founding director, Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems
Co-director, Robotics Research Laboratories
Professor of Computer Science, Neuroscience and Pediatrics

Contact at: (213) 740-4520, (213) 740-0622 or mataric@usc.edu


Expertise:
  • assistive robots
  • adaptive and learning robots
  • human-machine interaction, teaching and learning
  • technology-assisted therapy for autism, stroke, Alzheimer's, elder care, traumatic brain injury
  • robot societies and group behavior
  • control and learning in humanoid agents and robots
  • intelligent systems that integrate perception, representation, learning and action
  • behavior-based systems
  • interaction dynamics and learning in complex, multi-robot systems
  • learning by imitation and demonstration
  • cognitive science and neuroscience
Additional Information:
  • Author, The Robotics Primer (MIT Press, 2007)
  • Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • Chair, USC Women in Science and Engineering Viterbi School of Engineering Committee (2005-06)
  • Ambassador to the USC President (2002-2003)
  • Recipient, USC Mellon Mentoring Award (2009), Okawa Foundation Award (2004); USC Innovative Undergraduate Teaching Award (2004, 1999); IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Early Career Award (2000); USC School of Engineering Junior Research Award (2000); MIT Technology Review TR100 Innovation Award (1999); and the NSF Career Award (1996-2001)
  • Member, NSF CISE Directorate Advisory Board, and Willow Garage Inc. Advisory Board

Foreign Languages:
Serbo-Croatian

More:
For more information go to:

http://robotics.usc.edu/~maja
http://www.usc.edu/dept/nbio/ngp/Faculty/mataric-mj.html