Dr. Brittany Duncan is the Ross McCollum Associate Professor of Computing and a co-Director of the NIMBUS lab at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Her research is at the nexus of behavior-based robotics, human factors, and unmanned vehicles; specifically she is focused on how humans can more naturally interact with robots, individually or as part of ad hoc teams, in field-based domains such as agricultural, disaster response, and defense applications. She has been a PI on a NSF Early Faculty Career Award (CAREER), a PI on two NSF National Robotics Initiative (NRI) grants, and manages a diverse funding portfolio from numerous federal agencies. Dr. Duncan received a Ph.D. From Texas A&M University and B.S. in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Website Links: cse.unl.edu/~bduncan or nimbus.unl.edu
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