New Faculty Spotlight: Nivii Kalavakonda Chandrasekar

Nivii Kalavakonda Chandrasekar joins the mechanical and industrial engineering department in August 2025 as an assistant teaching professor in Seattle, WA.
She has a PhD in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Washington. Her research interests include robot manipulation, machine learning, and controls, with an interest in courses on robot learning for unstructured and dynamic human-robot interaction scenarios.