Roya Firoozi

Roya is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Aeronautics and Astronautics department at Stanford University, Multi-Robot Systems Laboratory. She received bachelor's and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. Her current research interests include predictive control, perception, optimization, and learning. Her work on predictive and collaborative robotics incorporates communication and connectivity technologies in autonomous systems to enable efficient and safe planning, control, estimation, and fault diagnostic algorithms for single and multiple agents in complex environments. She has received the NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship Award, the UC Berkeley Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, the UC Berkeley Chancellor’s Award, and the UC Berkeley Graduate Remote Instruction Innovation Fellowship Award. Outside of research, she is active in service and outreach programs, acting as co-editor and co-organizer of Learning for Dynamics and Control Conference (L4DC) and robotics mentor at Stanford AI4ALL outreach program that aims to increase diversity in the field of artificial intelligence.