Alyssa Pierson Receives MassRobotics Rising Star Award
By Maureen Stanton, Hariri Institute for Computing
Assistant Professor Alyssa N. Pierson (ME, SE) received the inaugural MassRobotics Rising Star in Robotics Medal for her key contributions to the cooperative, distributed control of multi-agent teams. The Rising Star in Robotics Medal recognizes up and coming woman-identifying persons making strides and advancing the field of robotics. The announcement was made at the 2023 IEEE ICRA conference in London.
Pierson is a Hariri Faculty Affiliate and principal investigator of the Collaborative Autonomy Group at Boston University. She is chief scientist for Ava Robotics. Pierson’s research interests include trust and cooperation in multi-agent systems, distributed robotics control, and socially-compliant autonomous system design. She focuses on designing robotic systems that interact with humans and other robots in complex, dynamic environments.
“By endowing the Robotics Medal, we aspire to showcase and celebrate women robotics professors worldwide who have made a significant impact to the advancement of the field of robotics,” said Tye Brady (ENG’90), chief technologist at Amazon Robotics. “It is an honor to be the founding sponsor of the Robotics Medal and we are thankful for the significant contributions and teachings made by our rising stars and legendary pioneers in that field.”
Earlier this spring, Pierson received a NSF CAREER award to advance research on “Decentralized and Online Planning for Emergent Cooperation in Multi-Robot Teams”. Learn more about this work here.
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