Jessica Ahner

Hello everyone! My name is Jessica Ahner and I am a rising senior studying Electrical/Computer Engineering and Applied Mathematics at The United States Air Force Academy. In the past three years of college, I have tried to immerse myself in the world of robotics and get as much hands-on experience as I can. It has been so interesting to see the diverse ways that robotics applies in the real world and I am excited to find out even more about robotics applications. I am working with Dr. Oliver Kroemer in the Intelligent Autonomous Manipulation lab, designing and building a structure to implement on the Franka robots. I am so thankful for this opportunity from the Robotics Institute at CMU and I am also thankful that USAFA has allowed me to forgo the traditional military-oriented summer in order to build my education in the field of robotics.