Anca Dragan

Associate Professor, Berkeley Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
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Anca runs the InterACT lab at Berkeley Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, focusing on enabling robots to work with, around, and in support of people. Her goal is for robots to autonomously generate their behavior in a way that moves beyond functionality and formally accounts for interaction with humans. This combines optimal control, machine learning, and cognitive science, with applications in collaborative manipulation and autonomous driving. Anca got her PhD in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University on planning intent-expressive robot motion.

Academic Background 

PhD, Robotics, Carnegie Mellon University

B.S., Computer Science, Jacobs University, Bremen

Academic Background 

PhD, Robotics, Carnegie Mellon University

B.S., Computer Science, Jacobs University, Bremen