Engineering Our Future - Maja Mataric, Ph.D

Maja Mataric, Ph.D., is professor of Computer Science, Neuroscience, and Pediatrics at the University of Southern California. She is Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and IEEE, and a recipient of the Presidential Mentoring Award. Her research develops socially assistive robots that provide personalized humanmachine interaction for coaching and motivation to users with autism, stroke, Alzheimer's, and others.