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#4 Heather Knight

Position: Graduate student and founder of Marilyn Monrobot
Institution: Carnegie Mellon
Education: Current Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon; M.S in electrical and mechanical engineering from MIT; B.S. in electrical and mechanical engineering from MIT
Heather Knight loves robots — and she wants you to love them too. She founded Marilyn Monrobot, which creates socially intelligent robot performances and sensor-based electronic art. Her robotic installations have been featured at the Smithsonian-Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, LACMA, and PopTech.
In her graduate work she studies human-robot interaction, personal robots, theatrical robot performances, and designs behavior systems.
Fun fact: When she's not building robots, she likes salsa dancing, karaoke, traveling, and film festivals.

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