Her research interests include haptics, teleoperation, mixed reality, and medical and soft robotics.
Allison Okamura is the Richard M. Weiland Professor of mechanical engineering in the School of Engineering and professor, by courtesy, of computer science at Stanford University. She is a deputy director of the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, affiliated faculty at Stanford Bio-X and Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute, and a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Her research interests include haptics, teleoperation, mixed reality, and medical and soft robotics. She received her PhD in mechanical engineering from Stanford University.