Julie Shah
{{short description|American aerospace engineer}}
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Julie Shah (née Arnold) is the Department Head of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and director of the Interactive Robotics Group at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
Early life and education
Shah was born and raised in New Jersey where she attended High Technology High School in Lincroft, NJ, with her future husband Neel Shah. She attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for her Bachelor of Science, Master's degree and PhD.{{cite web |last1=Kalin |first1=Sari |title=The Other Side of the Desk |url=https://mittr-frontend-prod.herokuapp.com/s/429455/the-other-side-of-the-desk/amp/ |publisher=MIT Technology Review |accessdate=September 30, 2020 |date=October 24, 2012}}
Career
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Upon completing her doctoral degree, Shah was immediately offered an assistant professor position in MIT’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AeroAstro). Prior to accepting the role, she was encouraged to spend an academic year away from MIT as a postdoctoral fellow with Boeing Research and Technology in Seattle to develop real-world applications. In her first year as an assistant professor, Shah co-taught a course called Real Time Systems and Software and co-founded the Interactive Robotics Group at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).{{cite web |last1=Abazorius |first1=Abby |title=Shah returns to CSAIL |url=https://news.mit.edu/2011/shah-csail |website=news.mit.edu |accessdate=September 30, 2020 |date=August 4, 2011}} By 2014, Shah collaborated with graduate student Been Kim and associate professor of statistics Cynthia Rudin to augment unsupervised machine learning in computers.{{cite web |last1=Hardesty |first1=Larry |title=Computers that teach by example |url=https://news.mit.edu/2014/pattern-recognition-systems-convey-learning-1205 |website=news.mit.edu |accessdate=September 30, 2020 |date=December 5, 2014}} As a result of her efforts, she was recognized by the MIT Technology Review TR35 list as one of the world’s top innovators under the age of 35.
During her time at MIT, Shah continued her research on human-robot collaboration and transition of results to real world applications. As a result, she became a 2016–17 Perrin Moorhead Grayson and Bruns Grayson Fellow at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.{{cite web |title=Julie A.Shah |url=https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/people/julie-shah |website=radcliffe.harvard.edu |accessdate=September 30, 2020}} Upon returning to MIT, Shah earned the 2018 Early Academic Career Award in Robotics and Automation from the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society.{{cite web |title=Congratulations to Prof. Julie Shah for 2018 IEEE Early Career Award! |url=https://interactive.mit.edu/news/congratulations-prof-julie-shah-2018-ieee-early-career-award |website=interactive.mit.edu |accessdate=September 30, 2020 |date=May 18, 2018}} In 2019, she received tenure from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Engineering as their Boeing Career Development Professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics.{{cite web |title=The tenured engineers of 2019 |url=https://news.mit.edu/2019/tenured-mit-engineers-0604 |website=news.mit.edu |accessdate=September 30, 2020 |date=June 4, 2019}}
In 2020 she co-authored What to Expect When You're Expecting Robots with entrepreneur Laura Major.{{cite web |title= “What to Expect When You’re Expecting Robots” |url=https://news.mit.edu/2020/expect-when-expecting-robots-1022 |website=news.mit.edu |accessdate=March 22, 2024 |date=October 22, 2020}}
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