Jaime Fernández Fisac

Title
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Office Phone
Office
F315 Engineering Quad
Bio/Description

Jaime Fernández Fisac is an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Princeton University, where he directs the Safe Robotics Laboratory and co-directs the Princeton AI4ALL outreach summer program. His research combines control theory, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and game theory with the goal of enabling robots to operate safely in human-populated spaces in a way that is well understood, and thereby trusted, by their users and the public at large. Prior to joining the Princeton faculty, he was a research scientist at Waymo (formerly Google’s Self-Driving Car project) from 2019 to 2020, working on autonomous vehicle safety and interaction. Fisac received an engineering diploma from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain in 2012, a M.Sc. in aeronautics from Cranfield University, U.K. in 2013, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer sciences from the University of California, Berkeley in 2019. He is a recipient of the La Caixa Foundation Fellowship, the Leon O. Chua Award, the Google Research Scholar Award, and the Sony Focused Research Award.