Assistant Professor Sylvia Herbert

Email: sherbert (at) ucsd.edu
Office: Franklin Antonio Hall 3303 (inside the Autonomy Collaboratory, 3301)
CV: short version, long version

Sylvia Herbert is an Assistant Professor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California San Diego. Prior to joining UCSD, she received her PhD in Electrical Engineering from UC Berkeley, where she studied with Professor Claire Tomlin on safe and efficient control of autonomous systems. Before that she earned her BS/MS at Drexel University in Mechanical Engineering. She is the recipient of the ONR Young Investigator Award, Hellman Fellowship, UCSD JSOE Early Career Faculty Award, UC Berkeley Chancellor’s Fellowship, NSF GRFP, UC Berkeley Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, and the Berkeley EECS Demetri Angelakos Memorial Achievement Award for Altruism. 

When not working she enjoys reading, hiking, cooking, and gardening.
Current book recommendation: Project Hail Mary
Current video game recommendation: It Takes Two
Current recipe recommendation: Easy Fluffy Buttermilk Pancakes

Abby Normal

Abby Normal (reference) is the official lab postdog. Her research interests lie in (a) human-dog interaction, and (b) motion prediction of small land-based vertebrates. In her free time she enjoys cuddling, running, hiking, tricks, and tricking all nearby students into providing free belly rubs.