Cindy Marie Grimm is an American computer scientist,

roboticist Robotics is an interdisciplinary branch of computer science and engineering. Robotics involves design, construction, operation, and use of robots. The goal of robotics is to design machines that can help and assist humans. Robotics integrat ...

, and mechanical engineer. She is a professor in the School of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering at

Oregon State University Oregon State University (OSU) is a public land-grant, research university in Corvallis, Oregon. OSU offers more than 200 undergraduate-degree programs along with a variety of graduate and doctoral degrees. It has the 10th largest engineering co ...

Research

Topics in Grimm's current research include robot grasping and issues of ethics and privacy in robotics, including the ethical implications of autonomous drones and

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s. Her past work has included research on the shape of ferret brains, using bat sonar techniques to develop robot sensors, and augmenting medical information with visual cues modeled after those in classical paintings, to guide non-expert viewers along the sight lines chosen by experts. She has also published highly cited work in volume segmentation,

computational topology Algorithmic topology, or computational topology, is a subfield of topology with an overlap with areas of computer science, in particular, computational geometry and computational complexity theory. A primary concern of algorithmic topology, as its ...

, shape comparison, and the modeling and synthesis of human facial expressions.

Education and career

Grimm grew up on the

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, where her parents were educators and later educational software developers. She graduated from the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

in 1990 with a double major in art and computer science, and completed a Ph.D. at

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

in 1996, working in computer graphics there with

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. Her dissertation was ''Modeling Surfaces of Arbitrary Topology using Manifolds''. After postdoctoral research at Brown and at

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, she became an assistant professor of computer science and engineering at

Washington University in St. Louis Washington University in St. Louis (WashU or WUSTL) is a private research university with its main campus in St. Louis County, and Clayton, Missouri. Founded in 1853, the university is named after George Washington. Washington University is r ...

in 2000. She moved to the School of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering at Oregon State University as a research associate professor in 2012, became a regular-rank associate professor in 2015, and was promoted to full professor in 2020.

Personal life

Grimm is married to Bill Smart, also on the faculty of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering at Oregon State; they met as graduate students at Brown University while sparring in a

hapkido Hapkido ( , , also spelled ''hap ki do'' or ''hapki-do''; from Korean 합기도 ''hapgido'' ) is a hybrid Korean martial art. It is a form of self-defense that employs joint locks, grappling, throwing techniques, kicks, punches, and other stri ...

course taught by Grimm. Grimm and Smart also continue to work together in the martial arts, as co-owners of a dojo in

Corvallis, Oregon Corvallis ( ) is a city and the county seat of Benton County in central western Oregon, United States. It is the principal city of the Corvallis, Oregon Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses all of Benton County. As of the 2020 United ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Grimm, Cindy Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American computer scientists American women computer scientists American mechanical engineers American women engineers University of California, Berkeley alumni Brown University alumni Washington University in St. Louis faculty Oregon State University faculty