Christine Allen-Blanchette

Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Statistics and Machine Learning

Research interests: Physics-guided AI, and robotics.

Innovation funds support advances in artificial intelligence, bioengineering, materials science and more

Foam board with a pinned grasshopper specimen, with wings extended, and four rows with different colors and shapes of synthetic wings under investigation for flying robots. — A team led by Pierre-Thomas Brun and Aimy Wissa is studying the structures and capabilities of grasshopper wings and flying fish fins. An innovation grant will allow the researchers to test different types of foldable wings and model their performance. Photos by Tori Repp/Fotobuddy

Innovation funds support research in robotics, machine learning, climate resilience and more

Student uses drill press while others observe.

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Solving problems in energy, combustion, fluids, lasers, materials science, robotics and control systems, and nuclear security

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Center for Statistics and Machine Learning