Robin Murphy

Dr. Robin R. Murphy is the Raytheon Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University and a director of the Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue.

She is an AAAS, ACM, and IEEE Fellow, a TED speaker, and the author of over 200 papers and four books including the award-winning Disaster Robotics. Dr. Murphy has deployed ground, aerial, and marine robots to over 30 disasters in five countries since the 9/11 World Trade Center. She led the first use of small drones for a disaster, Hurricane Katrina, in 2005 with subsequent deployments to Fukushima, Hurricane Harvey, the Surfside collapse, and numerous other floods, landslides, and hurricanes.