Cornelia Fermuller

Speaker at the Teaching the Arts in the Age of A.I. Symposium

Cornelia Fermüller is a research scientist at the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) at the University of Maryland at College Park.  She holds a Ph.D. from the Technical University of Vienna, Austria, and an M.S. from the University of Technology, Graz, Austria, both in Applied Mathematics.  She co-founded the Autonomy Cognition and Robotics (ARC) Lab and co-leads UMD's Perception and Robotics Group. She is the PI of an NSF-sponsored Network for Accelerating Research on Neuromorphic Engineering. Her research is in Computer, Human, and Robot Vision. She studies and develops biologically inspired Computer Vision solutions for systems interacting with their environment. In recent years, her work has focused on interpreting human activities and motion processing for fast, active robots using bio-inspired event-based sensors as input.