In May, RASL’s Jing Fan successfully defended her dissertation, entitled “Models of Adaptation in Intelligent Human-Machine Interaction and Their Applications to Elder Care and Autism Spectrum Disorder Intervention“.

Now Jing has accepted a position at Google as a software engineer in Mountain View, CA.

At Vanderbilt, Jing’s work focused on the application of Robotics to improve the lives of a variety of populations, including older adults and individuals on the autism spectrum.