Assistant Professor Sylvia Herbert

Email: sherbert (at) ucsd.edu
Office: Franklin Antonio Hall 3303 (inside the Autonomy Collaboratory, 3301)
CV: link

Sylvia Herbert is an Assistant Professor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California San Diego. Prior to joining UCSD, she received her PhD in Electrical Engineering from UC Berkeley, where she studied with Professor Claire Tomlin on safe and efficient control of autonomous systems. Before that she earned her BS/MS at Drexel University in Mechanical Engineering. She is the recipient of the ONR Young Investigator Award, the UC Berkeley Chancellor’s Fellowship, NSF GRFP, UC Berkeley Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, and the Berkeley EECS Demetri Angelakos Memorial Achievement Award for Altruism. 

When not working she enjoys reading, hiking, cooking, and video games.
Current book recommendation: The Caves of Steel
Current video game recommendation: It Takes Two
Current recipe recommendation: Italian-style Eggplant Parmesan

Abby Normal

Abby Normal (reference) is the official lab postdog. Her research interests lie in (a) human-dog interaction, and (b) motion prediction of small land-based vertebrates. In her free time she enjoys cuddling, running, hiking, tricks, and tricking all nearby students into providing free belly rubs.