{"id":27067,"date":"2023-06-23T14:16:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T19:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/?p=27067"},"modified":"2026-02-06T12:15:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T17:15:31","slug":"alyssa-pierson-receives-massrobotics-rising-star-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/2023\/06\/23\/alyssa-pierson-receives-massrobotics-rising-star-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Alyssa Pierson Receives MassRobotics Rising Star Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><em>By Maureen Stanton, Hariri Institute for Computing<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Hariri Faculty Affiliate <a href=\"https:\/\/alyssapierson.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alyssa N. Pierson<\/a> received the inaugural MassRobotics Rising Star in Robotics Medal for her key contributions to the cooperative, distributed control of multi-agent teams. The Rising Star in Robotics Medal recognizes up and coming woman-identifying persons making strides and advancing the field of robotics. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.massrobotics.org\/massrobotics-announces-winner-of-inaugural-robotics-medal-recognizing-accomplishments-of-women-in-robotics-winner-receives-50k\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announcement<\/a> was made at the IEEE ICRA conference in London on June 1, 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_27100\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27100\" style=\"width: 276px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/hic\/files\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-25-at-10.38.59-PM-636x467.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"195\" class=\"wp-image-27100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/files\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-25-at-10.38.59-PM-636x467.png 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/files\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-25-at-10.38.59-PM-1024x751.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/files\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-25-at-10.38.59-PM-768x563.png 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/files\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-25-at-10.38.59-PM.png 1194w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27100\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alyssa Pierson, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering and PI of the Collaborative Autonomy Group at Boston University<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span>Pierson is an assistant professor of mechanical engineering and principal investigator of the Collaborative Autonomy Group at Boston University. She is chief scientist for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avarobotics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ava Robotics<\/a>.<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> \u00a0Pierson&#8217;s\u00a0research interests include trust and cooperation in multi-agent systems, distributed robotics control, and socially-compliant autonomous system design. She focuses on designing robotic systems that interact with humans and other robots in complex, dynamic environments.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this spring, Pierson received a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/2023\/06\/25\/three-hariri-institute-faculty-affiliates-receive-nsf-career-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NSF CAREER award<\/a>\u00a0to advance research on &#8220;Decentralized and Online Planning for Emergent Cooperation in Multi-Robot Teams&#8221;.\u00a0<span>\u00a0Learn more\u00a0about this work <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/awardsearch\/showAward?AWD_ID=2235622&amp;HistoricalAwards=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Maureen Stanton, Hariri Institute for Computing Hariri Faculty Affiliate Alyssa N. Pierson received the inaugural MassRobotics Rising Star in Robotics Medal for her key contributions to the cooperative, distributed control of multi-agent teams. The Rising Star in Robotics Medal recognizes up and coming woman-identifying persons making strides and advancing the field of robotics. 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