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Researcher

Angelique Taylor

Angelique Taylor is a human-robot interaction researcher who designs AI and robots for healthcare teams in safety-critical settings. She began doctoral study at Notre Dame, moved to UC San Diego’s Healthcare Robotics Lab to work with Laurel Riek, and completed a computer science and engineering Ph.D. there in 2021. She coauthored a 2019 CSCW paper on clinical teamwork, presented REGROUP for robot-based group tracking, and helped develop a robotic crash cart with healthcare professionals. She serves as an assistant professor of information science in emergency medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College and directs AIRLab at Cornell Tech.

Timeline

  1. 2019

    Robots for clinical teamwork

    In 2019, she coauthors “Coordinating Clinical Teams: Using Robots to Empower Nurses to Stop the Line,” a CSCW paper that receives a Best Paper Honorable Mention.

  2. By 2021

    A doctorate in healthcare robotics

    At high school, she studies in an architecture-focused program and grows interested in hands-on electrical engineering. She begins a Ph.D. at Notre Dame to work with advisor Laurel Riek, moves to UC San Diego’s Healthcare Robotics Lab to continue with Riek, and completes a computer science and engineering Ph.D. there in 2021. In the lab, she develops algorithms that let robots interact with groups.

  3. 2022

    REGROUP and Cornell Tech

    In February 2022, she presents REGROUP, a robot-centric system that detects and tracks groups using person-reidentification features. The system receives HRI’s Best Paper Award in 2022. After serving as a visiting research scientist at Meta Reality Labs Research, she joins Cornell Tech; her research uses robotics, computer vision and AI to design intelligent systems for real-world, safety-critical environments.

  4. 2023

    A Google inclusion research award

    For work on inclusive clinical teamwork, she receives the Google Inclusion Research Award in 2023 for a proposal to empower nurses to promote patient safety.

  5. 2024

    AIRLab leadership and HRI recognition

    In March 2024, her lead-authored paper “Towards Collaborative Crash Cart Robots that Support Clinical Teamwork” receives a Best Paper Honorable Mention in HRI’s design category. By April 2024, she is an assistant professor in Cornell Tech’s Information Science Department and leads its Artificial Intelligence & Robotics Lab (AIRLab). As faculty advisor to the Black Cornell Tech Student Association, she helps students navigate academia and the technology industry.

  6. February–March 2025

    Crash carts and community design

    In February 2025, her team presents “Rapidly Built Medical Crash Cart!” at HRI. The team tests the remotely operated cart through field deployments and refines it with healthcare professionals. In March 2025, she receives a Community-Engaged Practice and Innovation Award from Cornell’s Einhorn Center; she uses community-driven design to build and test robots, AI and augmented-reality displays with healthcare stakeholders.

  7. February 2026

    Co-designing embodied AI

    In February 2026, she coauthors a study of a 14-week workshop with 22 participants across emergency departments, long-term rehabilitation facilities and sleep disorder clinics. The team moves from abstract concepts to high-fidelity prototypes and proposes eight guidelines for considerate embodied AI.

  8. Since 2025

    Professor in emergency medicine

    Since 2025, she serves as an assistant professor of information science in emergency medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College and directs AIRLab at Cornell Tech. In August 2026, she joins Cornell’s Research Matters series to discuss what happens when robots enter hospital emergency departments.

Career

  1. NowCornell UniversityAssistant Professor
  2. MetaVisiting Research Scientist

Education

  1. 2021University of California, San DiegoPhD student
  2. University of Notre DameDoctoral student

From the biography.

  1. 11% of AI doctorate holders from 2010 to 2016 founded or led a company or lab by 10 years after graduationIncludes Cornell University. We estimate how often AI doctorate holders founded or led a company or lab by 10 years after graduation, how waiting times compare between founders and top jobs, and which universities trained the most.
  2. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other universityIncludes Cornell University. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other university. We compare doctorate and 5+ year employment links, career timing and current workplaces for 187 major-prize and 1,111 best-paper winners.
  3. 84% of people shaping AI with recorded undergraduate and doctoral schools changed institutions for their doctorateIncludes Cornell University. 84% of people shaping AI with recorded undergraduate and doctoral schools changed institutions for their doctorate. Across 2,116 people with both an undergraduate degree and a doctorate recorded, we trace which undergraduate schools feed which doctoral programs, how often students stay at the same school, and how paths differ by birth-country region.
  4. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labsIncludes Cornell University. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labs. We compare publishing careers, recent citations, dual appointments and job moves across 2,420 university researchers and 308 frontier-lab researchers.

Sources and credits

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  1. Home | Angelique angeliquemtaylor.com. Checked 21 October 2026.
  2. We Are CSE: Angelique Taylor, PhD ’21 cse.ucsd.edu. Checked 21 October 2026.
  3. Expanding Pathways Into Tech: Angelique Taylor’s Journey tech.cornell.edu. Checked 21 October 2026.
  4. Cornell Tech – Angelique Taylor tech.cornell.edu. Checked 21 October 2026.
  5. REGROUP: A Robot-Centric Group Detection and Tracking System robotics.cornell.edu. Checked 21 October 2026.
  6. Cornell Tech Welcomes 3 New Faculty tech.cornell.edu. Checked 21 October 2026.
  7. Angelique Taylor Receives the Google Inclusion Research Award tech.cornell.edu. Checked 21 October 2026.
  8. Help or hindrance? ER robots have potential to aid health care workers news.cornell.edu. Checked 21 October 2026.
  9. Inside the medical crash cart robot: Designing for urgency, collaboration, and clarity news.cornell.edu. Checked 21 October 2026.
  10. Rapidly Built Medical Crash Cart! Lessons Learned and Impacts on High-Stakes Team Collaboration in the Emergency Room arxiv.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  11. Cornell faculty honored for community-engaged innovation einhorn.cornell.edu. Checked 21 October 2026.
  12. Towards Considerate Embodied AI: Co-Designing Situated Multi-Site Healthcare Robots from Abstract Concepts to High-Fidelity Prototypes arxiv.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  13. Taylor, Angelique vivo.weill.cornell.edu. Checked 21 October 2026.
  14. Robotic medical crash cart eases workload for healthcare teams news.cornell.edu. Checked 21 October 2026.
  15. Research Matters returns, following ideas from the lab to real life news.cornell.edu. Checked 21 October 2026.