Dr. Geng is an Assistant Professor with Deparment of Aerospace Engineering at Pennsylvania State University. She was a Postdoc Fellow with the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where she was a member of AirLab working on aerial manipulation and eVTOL. Before that, Jenny was a Postdoc researcher of Coordinated Science Lab at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign working on robotic manipulation for high precision assembly. She received her Ph.D. and M.S. in Aerospace Engineering with a minor in Electrical Engineering at Pennsylvania State University, and my B.Eng. in Aircraft Design and Engineering at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Her research goal is to advance state-of-the-art aerial autonomy by bridging the aerospace and robotic communities. Her research is primarily concerned with perception and manipulation algorithms to enable high performance autonomy for aerial robots. She is enthusiastic about robotics and unmanned aerial system (UAS). She is also interested in optimization and machine learning and applying them on hardware. Jenny is a remote pilot for UAS. She loves flying drones and building robots.

Contact:

Email: jgeng@psu.edu

Office: 424 ECoRE Building

Work Phone: (814) 865-3677

Recent News

• 05/2024: I gave a talk for Penn State industryXchange 2024: Robotics.

• 04/2024: I started serving as an Associate Editor (AE) for IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), one of the top robotics journals.

• 03/2024: I gave a talk for Penn State Vertical Flight Society (VFS).

• 03/2023: I gave a talk for Maryland Robotics Center Microsoft Future Leaders in Robotics and AI seminar series.

• 01/2023: I served as the Area Chair of the Autonomy Session of AIAA Intelligent System Technical Committee.

• 01/2023: I started serving as an Associate Editor (AE) for International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), one of the top robotics journals.

• 01/2023: I started the new position at Pennsylvania State University.

• 04/2022: I will join the Deparment of Aerospace Engineering at Pennsylvania State University as an Assistant Professor in Jan. 2023. I have multiple openings for graduate students. Contact me if you are interested.

• 01/2022: I gave a talk for School of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Purdue University.

• 12/2021: I gave a talk for Deparment of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering at Renssselaer Polytechnic Institute.

• 11/2021: I gave a talk for Deparment of Aerospace Engineering at Pennsylvania State University.

• 08/2021: I joined the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University as a Postdoc Fellow as a member of AirLab.

• 03/2021: I gave a talk for William E. Boeing Deparment of Aeronautics and Astronautics at University of Washington.

• 10/2020: I joined the Coordinated Science Lab at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign as a Postdoc Research Associate.