Katherine J. Kuchenbecker

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Katherine Julianne Kuchenbecker (* before 1980) is an American engineer. Since 2018 she has been director at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart .

family

Katherine Kuchenbecker is the eldest child of Santa Monica surgeon Stephen Kuchenbecker and his wife Shari Kuchenbecker, a psychologist, former college professor, and parenting guide author. The couple have another daughter and son.

Act

Kuchenbecker studied from 1996 to 1999 at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University in California, where she also played volleyball , and received her doctorate in 2006 from the same faculty on "Characterizing and Controlling the High-Frequency Dynamics of Haptic Interfaces". After a postdoctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, she accepted an assistant professorship in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. In 2013 she was appointed lecturer there and also works at the Department of Computer Science and Computer Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Kuchenbecker has been a Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society since 2017 and Director at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems since 2018. There she heads the “Haptic Intelligence” department.

Her research focuses on haptic interfaces that allow users to touch virtual and distant objects as if they were real and within reach, as well as haptic sensor systems that allow robots to physically interact with objects and people.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stephen L. Kuchenbecker drksurgery.com. Retrieved June 11, 2020.
  2. ^ Katherine Julianne Kuchenbecker: Characterizing and Controlling the High-Frequency Dynamics of Haptic Interfaces. Dissertation. 2006, p. Viii.
  3. ↑ CV (.pdf)
  4. ↑ Katherine J. Kuchenbecker, Ph.D. Retrieved May 28, 2020 .
  5. ^ Jon Williams: Katherine J. Kuchenbecker | Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. Retrieved May 28, 2020 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Kuchenbecker, Katherine J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kuchenbecker, Katherine Julianne (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American engineer
DATE OF BIRTH before 1980