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Silvia Ferrari

Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Field member in computer science
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Silvia Ferrari is John Brancaccio Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University.  Prior to that, she was Professor of Engineering and Computer Science at Duke University, and Founder and Director of the NSF Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) and Fellowship program on Wireless Intelligent Sensor Networks (WISeNet).  Currently, she is the Director of the Laboratory for Intelligent Systems and Controls (LISC) at Cornell University and the co-Director of the Cornell-Unibo Věho Institute on Vehicle Intelligence at Cornell Tech.  Her principal research interests include active perception, robust adaptive control, learning, and approximate dynamic programming, and control of multiscale dynamical systems.

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Research areas
Robotics
Contact
sf375@cornell.edu
Location
NYC
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Computer Science

Awards

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(ONR) Young Investigator Award

Office of Naval Research
Silvia Ferrari
  • Education
  • 2004

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NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER)

National Science Foundation
Silvia Ferrari
  • Education
  • 2005

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