Cara M. Nunez

Cara M. Nunez (Member, IEEE) received the B.S. degree in biomedical engineering and the B.A. degree in Spanish from the University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, USA, in 2016 and the M.S. degree in mechanical engineering and the Ph.D. degree in bioengineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, in 2018 and 2021, respectively. She is currently an Assistant Professor with the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA. She was formerly a DAAD Graduate Research Fellow with the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, Germany, a Robotics Research Intern with the Honda Research Institute, San Jose, CA, USA, and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, MA, USA. Her research interests include haptics, robotics, and human-centered design for medical applications, human-machine interaction, augmented and virtual reality, and STEM education. Prof. Nunez was the Student Activities Committee Chair from 2020 to 2022 and is currently the Student Activities Committee Senior Chair and an Associate Vice President for the Media Services Board for the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society.