Kali Hamilton
- Graduate Research Assistant
- RF ENGINEERING
Kali Hamilton is a robotics engineer with a unique background - a bachelor’s degree in political science, an early career in the non-profit field and a masters in mechanical engineering. Her hands-on field experience includes working with strawberry picking robots on farms in the UK and CA as well as electric autonomous lawnmowers across the United States. She joins NSI as a researcher and incoming CS Ph.D. student with 5 years' experience in the robotics startup space. Kali’s Ph.D. research is on the use of millimeter wave radar in outdoor robotics applications, advised by Professor Christoffer Heckman in the Autonomous Robotics and Perception group.
She earned her MSME degree from Boston University in 2020, completing her thesis on a shared autonomy paradigm for an assistive robot and received her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2014. Outside of the lab, Kali is a voracious reader of all things sci-fi and fantasy, a recovering rugby player who limps through the classic outdoor Colorado activities and a volunteer at her local tool library.
She earned her MSME degree from Boston University in 2020, completing her thesis on a shared autonomy paradigm for an assistive robot and received her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2014. Outside of the lab, Kali is a voracious reader of all things sci-fi and fantasy, a recovering rugby player who limps through the classic outdoor Colorado activities and a volunteer at her local tool library.