Biography
Tesca Fitzgerald is assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Yale University. Her research centres on interactive robot learning, with the aim of building robots that are adaptive, robust and collaborative when faced with novel situations. She completed her Ph.D. at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a postdoctoral fellowship at Carnegie Mellon University. Her work has been recognised with the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, the Microsoft Graduate Women Scholarship and the IBM Ph.D. Fellowship.
Research Interests
- autonomous learning
- affordance-based manipulation
- learning from demonstration
- task transfer
- cognitive AI
SCENE Teams
Featured Publications
The Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience: Studying how the brain interacts with the world
Angelaki DE, Batista A, Fitzgerald T, Kominsky JF, Lengyel M, Mathis A, Mathis MW, Moss CF, Niell CM, Noel JP, Pitkow X, Rothkopf CA, Savin C, Stachenfeld K, Suthana N, Tolias A, Ulanovsky N, Wolpert DM, Wong A, Zimmermann J
Neuron, 2026 · DOI (opens in new tab) · Preprint (PDF) (opens in new tab)