Dr. Madeline Gannon

Dr. Madeline Gannon is a multidisciplinary designer and researcher inventing better ways to communicate with machines. Also known as the “Robot Whisperer”, she specializes in convincing robots to do things they were never intended to do. Her work blends techniques in art, design, computer science, and robotics to forge new futures for human-robot relations. Dr. Gannon is a Knight Foundation Awardee, a World Economic Forum Cultural Leader, and a former Robotics & AI Researcher at NVIDIA. She has held previous fellowships at ETH Zurich, Autodesk Pier 9, and the Carnegie Mellon STUDIO for Creative Inquiry. She is known as one of the ‘Top 10 Women in Robotics Industry’ and ‘World’s 50 Most Renowned Women in Robotics’ according to Analytics Insight. Gannon holds a Masters of Architecture from Florida International University and a Ph.D in Computational Design from Carnegie Mellon University.