Silvia Ferrari

Silvia Ferrari is Associate Dean of Cross-Campus Engineering Research and the John Brancaccio Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell Tech and Cornell Engineering. Prior to that, she was a professor of engineering and computer science at Duke University and founder and director of the NSF Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship and fellowship program on Wireless Intelligent Sensor Networks. She is the author of the book “Information-Driven Path Planning and Control” and the TED talk “Do Robots Dream of Electric Sheep?”

Ferrari received a B.S. from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University. She is a fellow of ASME, an associate fellow of AIAA, and a senior member of the IEEE, as well as a member of SPIE and SIAM. She is the recipient of the ONR Young Investigator Award, the NSF CAREER Award, the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers Award, the Cornell University Award for Research Excellence, and the Cornell College of Engineering Excellence in Teaching Award, to name a few.

Ferrari is the director of the Laboratory for Intelligent Systems and Controls at Cornell University and the co-director of the Cornell-Unibo Věho Institute on Vehicle Intelligence at Cornell Tech.