Radhika Nagpal | |
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Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Known for | Self-organising computer systems |
Awards | CRA-W Borg Early Career Award (2010) McDonald Mentoring Award (2015) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Computer science |
Institutions | Princeton University Harvard University |
Doctoral advisor | Gerald Jay Sussman |
Website | www |
Radhika Nagpal is an Indian-American computer scientist and researcher in the fields of self-organising computer systems, biologically-inspired robotics, and biological multi-agent systems.[1] She is the Augustine Professor in Engineering in the Departments of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Computer Science at Princeton University. Formerly, she was the Fred Kavli Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University[2] and the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. In 2017, Nagpal co-founded a robotics company under the name of Root Robotics. This educational company works to create many different opportunities for those unable to code to learn how.[3]