Patrícia Alves-Oliveira
Assistant Professor, Robotics
Email robopati@umich.edu
Research Interests Human-Robot Interaction, Embodied Social Artificial Intelligence, Human-Centered Systems, Design, Real Deployment Environments and Real Users
Related focus areas Design & Soft Robotics, Human-Robot Interaction & Teaming, Robot Learning & Foundational Models, Safe Autonomy & Robot Safety
Honors and awards
2025
Rising Woman Start in Social Robotics — ICSR
2025
Human-Robot Interaction Award — ICRA
2024
NSF EAGER — NSF
2024
DARPA Yong Faculty Award — DARPA
2021
Best Design Paper Award — 16th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
2020
EECS Rising Stars — UC Berkeley
2020
Future Digileader — KTH
2020
Postdoctoral Researcher Award — University of Washington
2020
Ada Lovelace Travel Grant — Open Hardware Summit
2019
RSS Pioneer — RSS
2017
First Prize Best Serious Game Award — Serious Games Society
2016
Best Design Paper Award — 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction