Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science

Accelerating our Impact on the World

In a Q&A, Dean Jeffrey Brock shares how the Roberts Innovation Fund will help amplify the process of bringing Yale SEAS-developed breakthroughs to society.

Faculty Spotlight

Brian Scassellati

Professor of Computer Science & Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science

Brian Scassellati's research focuses on building embodied computational models of human social behavior. Using computational modeling and socially interactive robots, Scassellati's Social Robotics Lab evaluates models of how infants acquire social skills and assists in the diagnosis and quantification of disorders of social development. Other interests include humanoid robots, humanrobot interaction, artificial intelligence, machine perception, and social learning.

News

Shruti Puri Wins NSF CAREER Award

For her work on developing a more robust quantum computing system, Shruti Puri has won a 2021 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF).