Heather L. Jones

Heather Jones is a Senior Project Scientist at Carnegie Mellon University. She has developed and tested robots for planetary and nuclear applications. Prior to her graduate studies, She worked at the NASA Johnson Space Center doing analysis of operations for the Canadarm2 robot on the International Space Station. She earned her B.A. and B.S. from Swarthmore College. Her M.S. and PhD were earned from Carnegie Mellon with perception and planning research for robotic modeling of pits and other planetary terrain features.