Human-Centered Autonomy Lab – at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Autonomous systems and robots are becoming prevalent in our everyday lives and are changing the foundations of our way of life. However, the desirable impacts of autonomy are only achievable if the underlying algorithms can handle the unique challenges humans present: People tend to defy expected behaviors and do not conform to many of the standard assumptions made in robotics. To design safe, trustworthy systems, we must transform how intelligent robots interact, influence, and predict human agents.

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Katie Driggs-Campbell, PhD
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Associate Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

News

[08.2025] Earned the 2025 Campus Distinguished Promotion Award along with tenure xD
[05.2025] Our work with STJU on human skill acquisition won an ICRA Best Paper Award on Human Robot Interaction.
[05.2025] Our work on learning from humans using tools won the best paper award at the ICRA Workshop on Foundation Models and Neuro-Symbolic AI for Robotics.
[05. 2024] Awarded the ECE Ronald W. Pratt Faculty Outstanding Teaching Award thanks to awesome ECE students!
[10.2023] We were finalists for best paper award for our work on using behavior primitives for complex manipulation tasks at the Conference on Robot Learning!
[08.2023] We received the George N. Saridis Best Transactions Paper Award for our work in planning for autonomous vehicles in Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles!
[05.2023] Awarded the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society’s Early Academic Career Award!
[03.2023] Named the Bruning Family Faculty Fellow in ECE!
[12.2022] We received best paper award for our work on explainability for autonomous driving at the NeurIPS Workshop on Progress and Challenges in Building Trustworthy Embodied AI!
[2022++] News archive coming soon…

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