Keynotes

Speaker: Jessica Burgner-Kahrs

Jessica Burgner-Kahrs is Professor at the University of Toronto with appointments in Computer Science, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, and Mathematical & Computational Sciences. She is the founding Director of the Continuum Robotics Laboratory. She received her Ph.D. in computer science from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in 2010 and held prior positions at Vanderbilt University and Leibniz University Hannover. Her work has been recognized with the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize and the Lower Saxony Science Award, and she was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2019.