Laura Stegner

Motivated by global challenges posed by increasing caregiver shortages, Dr. Laura Stegner seeks to design, build, and evaluate intelligent systems (e.g., robots) that support complex tasks in healthcare environments. Her dissertation investigates the specific use case of integrating care robots into assisted living facilities, although her interest lies broadly in all healthcare domains. Dr. Stegner's work makes scientific contributions of new methods, tools, systems, and knowledge, and she also engages the local community to bring robots into the real world.