Jessica Lee, Bio-inspired Robotics/Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley

Jessica Lee is a PhD Graduate in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley and now works at Dishcraft Robotics as a Mechanical Engineer. At Berkeley, she worked on bio-inspired design to improve robot performance. She received her Master of Science in ME and is a part of Biomimetic Millisystems Lab where she worked with Ronald S. Fearing. She also worked closely with Robert J. Full and the Poly-PEDAL Lab and was co-advised by Alice Agogino. She’s also been a graduate researcher at the Biorobotics Lab at Seoul National University and Reconfigurable Robotics Lab at EPFL. Before graduate school, she received a Bachelors in ME at University of California, Santa Barbara, where she worked on gecko adhesives under Kimberly Turner in the Mechanics of Microscale Systems (MEMS) Lab. She has also interned at Inogen, InTouch Health, and United Airlines. Her research takes inspiration from biology to improve robotic design but also uses robots as physical models to test biology hypotheses. In particular, she’s interested in designs that will make robots more effective in navigating and interacting with their environments to take more of them out of the lab and into the real world. In May 2018, she presented at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) on her work on a self-engaging spined gripper with dynamic penetration and release for steep jumps in Brisbane, Australia. You can see more of her work and accomplishments as well as links to the various papers she’s worked on on her website!

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