Anastasia Kouvaras Ostrowski
Assistant Professor Purdue University
Dr. Anastasia Kouvaras Ostrowski is an Assistant Professor in the School of Applied and Creative Computing with a courtesy appointment in the School of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University. Her work supports robot and AI design and implementation processes in industrial, manufacturing, and home contexts, among others.
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Dr. Anastasia Kouvaras Ostrowski is an Assistant Professor in the School of Applied and Creative Computing with a courtesy appointment in the School of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University. Her work supports design and implementation processes in human-computer and human-robot interaction. She emphasizes co-design and participatory design approaches, particularly focusing on designing and implementing robots and AI in industrial, manufacturing, and home contexts, among others. She also focuses on designing policies around new technologies in these ecosystems. Previously, she was a postdoctoral researcher in the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing’s Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing (SERC) and in the MIT Media Lab’s Personal Robots Group. Anastasia received her PhD in media arts and sciences from MIT, focused on equitable technology design, and received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in biomedical engineering from the University of Michigan, focused on engineering design processes and idea generation.