Allison Okamura
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Allison Mariko Okamura is an American mechanical engineer and roboticist whose research concerns haptic technology, teleoperation, remote surgery, and robot-assisted surgery. She is the Richard W. Weiland Professor in the School of Engineering and a professor of mechanical engineering at Stanford University, where she directs the Collaborative Haptics and Robotics in Medicine (CHARM) laboratory and maintains a courtesy appointment as professor of computer science.[1]
Okamura was born in Fontana, California, and grew up in Riverside, California.[2] She majored in mechanical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, graduating in 1994.[1] She went to Stanford University for graduate study in mechanical engineering, working with Mark Cutkosky;[2] she earned a master's degree there in 1996, and completed her Ph.D. in 2000.[1]
She joined the mechanical engineering department at Johns Hopkins University as an assistant professor in 2000, eventually earning a promotion to full professor there. She returned to Stanford University as a faculty member in 2011, in part to solve a two-body problem with her husband's academic career.[2]
She served as editor-in-chief of the journal IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters from 2018 to 2021.[3]
