Yorie Nakahira
Associate Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
Yorie Nakahira is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. She received a B.E. in Control and Systems Engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in Control and Dynamical Systems from California Institute of Technology. Her research goal is to develop control and learning techniques that enhance the capabilities of autonomous systems. On the algorithm side, her group studies robust and safe control, uncertainty and risk quantification, adaptation algorithms, and language-guided control.
On the application side, her group explores diverse topics, ranging from autonomous control systems to human sensorimotor control to poverty alleviation policy design. She has received young investigator awards such as NSF CAREER, JST SAKIGAKE, JST BOOST. She is part of Fujitsu-Carnegie Mellon Physical AI Initiative, and also holds a part-time position at the Research and Development Center for Large Language Models at National Institute of Informatics.
