Tesca Fitzgerald, Ph.D.

Tesca Fitzgerald is assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Yale University. Her research is centered around interactive robot learning, with the aim of developing robots that are adaptive, robust and collaborative when faced with novel situations. Fitzgerald completed her B.Sc. at Portland State University, her Ph.D. in computer science at the Georgia Institute of Technology and her postdoctoral fellowship at Carnegie Mellon University. She is an NSF Graduate Research Fellow (2014), Microsoft Graduate Women Scholar (2014) and IBM Ph.D. Fellow (2017).