Bio

Short Biography

Zackory Erickson is an Assistant Professor in The Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where he leads the Robotic Caregiving and Human Interaction (RCHI) Lab. His research focuses on developing new robot learning, mobile manipulation, and sensing methods for physical human-robot interaction and healthcare. Zackory received his PhD in Robotics and M.S. in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and B.S. in Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse.

Full Biography

Zackory Erickson is an Assistant Professor in The Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where he leads the Robotic Caregiving and Human Interaction (RCHI) Lab. His research focuses on developing new robot learning, mobile manipulation, and sensing methods for physical human-robot interaction and healthcare. Zackory’s work spans physical human-robot interaction, healthcare robotics, wearable health sensing, robot learning, physics simulation, multimodal perception, and mobile manipulation. Prior to joining CMU, Zackory received his PhD in Robotics from Georgia Tech with Prof. Charlie Kemp. He also received an M.S. in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and B.S. in Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse. He and his students have received Best Paper Award at HRI 2024, Best Student Paper Award at ICORR 2019, and a Best Paper in Service Robotics finalist at ICRA 2019.

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