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Katie Skinner

Katie Skinner

Assistant Professor, Robotics

Email kskin@umich.edu

Office 3244 FMCRB

Research Interests Field robotics (underwater, space, autonomous vehicles), perception, robot learning, computer vision, multi-sensor fusion

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Improving Mars and Moon rover localization with ground penetrating radar

November 6, 2025

A black and white sonar image of a sunken ship.

Sonar shipwreck dataset expands national AI infrastructure

October 3, 2025

A group holds up water samples from around the country that will be poured into the new water research tank.

New robotics research water tank to enable advanced marine autonomy

May 7, 2025

Two researchers on a boat, as one of them points to the sonar data they are collecting on a screen.

Katherine Skinner awarded NSF CAREER grant

June 14, 2024

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Michigan Robotics at IROS 2023 in Detroit

September 7, 2023

Honors and awards

2025
Ocean News & Technology Early Career Ocean Professional Award — Marine Technology Society
2024
Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award — Office of Naval Research
2024
NSF CAREER Award — National Science Foundation
2023
Best Paper Award — IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
2018
Richard and Eleanor Towner Prize for Outstanding Ph.D. Research Honorable Mention — U-M College of Engineering
2017
Distinguished Leadership Award — U-M College of Engineering