Angelique Taylor

Angelique Taylor is the Andrew H. and Ann R. Tisch Assistant Professor at Cornell Tech and the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science.

Taylor is the director of the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Lab (AIRLab), focusing on research at the intersection of robotics, computer vision, and artificial intelligence. The AIRLab designs intelligent systems that work alongside groups of people in real-world, safety-critical environments. She designs and builds systems that interact with people, including robots, AI, and extended reality devices.

Before joining Cornell, Taylor was a visiting research scientist at Meta Reality Labs Research, working on AI to support multi-user collaboration in augmented and virtual reality. She received her Ph.D. in computer science and engineering from the University of California, San Diego, in 2021 and a B.S. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2016.

Taylor has received the NSF Foundation Research in Robotics award, the Cornell Einhorn Center Community-Engaged Practice & Innovation award, the Google Award for Inclusive Research, the NSF GRFP award, the Microsoft Dissertation award, the Google Anita Borg Memorial Fellowship, the Arthur J. Schmitt Presidential Fellowship, a GEM Fellowship, an award from the National Center for Women in Information Technology, and Best Paper awards at HRI 2022, HRI 2024, and CSCW 2019.