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SUMMARY:Emergent Construction in Insect and Robotic Swarms\, Kirstin Hagel
 skjaer Petersen / Design Modelling Symposium 2026
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DESCRIPTION:Kirstin Hagelskjaer Petersen\nKirstin Hagelskjaer Petersen -
  Emergent Construction in Insect and Robotic Swarms\n\nEPFL is pleased to 
 welcome Kirstin Hagelskjaer Petersen (Cornell University) for a keynote le
 cture on collective robotics and bio-inspired swarm systems. This lecture 
 is free and open to all.\n\nKirstin H. Petersen is Associate Professor in 
 the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University\, 
 where she is the Aref and Manon Lahham Faculty Fellow and a Cornell Atkins
 on Center for Sustainability Faculty Fellow. She leads the Collective Embo
 died Intelligence Lab\, which designs and coordinates robot collectives ca
 pable of behaviors beyond the reach of any individual\, alongside studies 
 of how social insects achieve the same in nature. Her work spans micro- an
 d mesoscale robots\, soft robots\, bio-hybrid systems\, and active matter\
 , with applications in collective construction\, digital agriculture\, bio
 medical procedures\, and environmental monitoring and remediation.\n\nShe 
 completed her PhD at Harvard University and the Wyss Institute for Biologi
 cally Inspired Engineering\, where her doctoral research was featured on t
 he cover of Science\, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the Max Pla
 nck Institute for Intelligent Systems and a fellowship with the Max Planck
  ETH Center for Learning Systems. She was named one of RoboHub's 25 Women 
 in Robotics You Need to Know (2018) and has received a Packard Fellowship 
 for Science and Engineering (2019)\, the NSF CAREER Award (2021)\, the Cor
 nell College of Engineering Excellence in Research Award (2021)\, and the 
 Douglas Whitney '61 Excellence in Teaching Award (2022). She was elevated 
 to IEEE Senior Member in 2024.\n\nThe lecture is part of the Design Modell
 ing Symposium 2026\, which brings together keynotes and research discussio
 ns on the shifting relationship between designers and intelligent machines
  across materials\, people\, and responsibility. Registration for the full
  symposium is available at the link.\n\nLearn more about Kirstin and the C
 ollective Embodied Intelligence Lab\nRegistration for the symposium  ↗
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