The CRB Bids a Fond Farewell to Amy Nedoss

On June 29, the students, staff, and faculty of the Center for Robotics and Biosystems gathered to bid a fond farewell to Amy Nedoss, who is moving to a full-time role with the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society.

Amy first joined the CRB in December 2020 as the editorial assistant for the IEEE Transactions on Robotics, a part-time role. Shortly thereafter, she transitioned to full time, adding the role of program administrator, then program coordinator, for the CRB. Later, she added one more role to her portfolio, serving in a critical administrative position during the awarding, launch, and growth of the NSF Human AugmentatioN via Dexterity Engineering Research Center (HAND ERC), headquartered at Northwestern and launched in September 2024.   

Amy's contributions to the CRB and HAND are too many to count, but they include organizing our webinar and seminar series, arranging tours, coordinating our websites and social media, handling financials, managing space and interfacing with facilities management, assisting the ME staff, strategizing with the faculty to grow the CRB and HAND, and organizing major events, such as HAND's annual site visit and research summit.

For more than five years, Amy has been the professional and friendly face of the CRB to our external constituents. With her creativity and proactive approach, she has been the driving force behind several important initiatives within HAND and the CRB. Most importantly, she has touched the lives of the many students of the CRB, who could not imagine their experience at Northwestern without her.

As director of the CRB and research director of HAND, and speaking for HAND director Ed Colgate, we will miss Amy terribly, but we are enormously grateful for the time we worked together. We are also thankful that she will continue her work in the robotics community, now full time with IEEE RAS and the Transactions on Robotics. Best of luck, Amy!

-- Kevin Lynch