Julie Shah

Julie Shah (née Arnold) is the Department Head of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and director of the Interactive Robotics Group at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

Julie Shah
Born	1982 (age 41–42)[notes 1] New Jersey, USA[2]
Spouse	Neel Shah
Academic background
Education	S.M., 2006, PhD, 2011, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thesis	Fluid coordination of human-robot teams (2011)
Academic work
Institutions	Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Early life and education

Shah was born and raised in New Jersey where she attended a small New Jersey charter school with her future husband Neel Shah.^[2] She attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for her Bachelor of Science, Master's degree and PhD.^[3]

Career

Shah (left) with Secretary of State John Kerry and Bill Aulet.

Upon completing her doctoral degree, Shah was immediately offered an assistant professor position in MIT’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AeroAstro). Prior to accepting the role, she was encouraged to spend an academic year away from MIT as a postdoctoral fellow with Boeing Research and Technology in Seattle to develop real-world applications.^[3] In her first year as an assistant professor, Shah co-taught a course called Real Time Systems and Software and co-founded the Interactive Robotics Group at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).^[4] By 2014, Shah collaborated with graduate student Been Kim and associate professor of statistics Cynthia Rudin to augment unsupervised machine learning in computers.^[5] As a result of her efforts, she was recognized by the MIT Technology Review TR35 list as one of the world’s top innovators under the age of 35.^[1]

During her time at MIT, Shah continued her research on human-robot collaboration and transition of results to real world applications. As a result, she became a 2016–17 Perrin Moorhead Grayson and Bruns Grayson Fellow at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.^[6] Upon returning to MIT, Shah earned the 2018 Early Academic Career Award in Robotics and Automation from the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society.^[7] In 2019, she received tenure from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Engineering as their Boeing Career Development Professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics.^[8] In 2020 she co-authored What to Expect When You're Expecting Robots with entrepreneur Laura Major.^[9]

References

1. Knight, Will (2014). "Visionaries (2014)". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved December 27, 2020.
2. Kumler, Emily (December 19, 2018). "What Happens to the Marriage When Both People Conquer the Corner Office?". bostonmagazine.com. Retrieved December 27, 2020.
3. Kalin, Sari (October 24, 2012). "The Other Side of the Desk". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved September 30, 2020.
4. Abazorius, Abby (August 4, 2011). "Shah returns to CSAIL". news.mit.edu. Retrieved September 30, 2020.
5. Hardesty, Larry (December 5, 2014). "Computers that teach by example". news.mit.edu. Retrieved September 30, 2020.
6. "Julie A.Shah". radcliffe.harvard.edu. Retrieved September 30, 2020.
7. "Congratulations to Prof. Julie Shah for 2018 IEEE Early Career Award!". interactive.mit.edu. May 18, 2018. Retrieved September 30, 2020.
8. "The tenured engineers of 2019". news.mit.edu. June 4, 2019. Retrieved September 30, 2020.
9. ""What to Expect When You're Expecting Robots"". news.mit.edu. October 22, 2020. Retrieved March 22, 2024.

Notes

1. In 2014, Shah was reported to be 32 years old^[1]

External links

Julie Shah publications indexed by Google Scholar