Rate My Professor Brittany Duncan

Duncan's contributions have earned her the NSF Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award for studying novice user interactions with sUAVs, the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship from 2010 to 2015, the Best Paper Award at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems in 2018, Best Paper Nomination at the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction in 2019, and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Engineering Excellence in Research Award in 2019. She was recognized as the NUtech Ventures 2023 Emerging Innovator of the Year and participated in leadership programs such as the Faculty Leadership in AI Research (FLAIR). Notable publications include "An ethical governor for constraining lethal action in an autonomous system" (2009), "Comfortable approach distance with small unmanned aerial vehicles" (2013), "Use of a small unmanned aerial system for the SR-530 mudslide incident near Oso, Washington" (2016), "Recognizing User Proficiency in Piloting Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (sUAV)" (IEEE RA-L, 2022), and "Predicting Visual Differentiability for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Gestures" (IEEE RA-L, 2022). Duncan holds editorial roles, including Associate Editor for IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (Aerial and Field Robotics) since 2020, and has served on numerous program committees for major conferences like ACM/IEEE HRI, IEEE IROS, and IEEE ICRA, as well as university committees on diversity, curriculum, and UAS policy.