Sara Cooper
Research Scientist at IIIA-CSIC
Spain
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolSara Cooper is a research scientist and robotics software engineer with eight years' experience building social robots for healthcare and assistive settings. She blends biomedical engineering and an MSc in Robotics to design user-centered human-robot interaction, shipping ROS-based systems in C++ and Python for projects like SHAPES and SPRING. Her work spans hands-on development (ARI, TIAGo, Haru, Pepper) to project management and dissemination across EU and international collaborations, and she has led efforts to adapt robots for autism therapy and elder care. Comfortable bridging research and product needs, she pairs deep technical skills with practical deployment experience and a track record of delivering low-cost, ethically informed robotic solutions.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Biomedical Engineering, Bachelor's degree Biomedical Engineering at Mondragon UnibertsitateaHeriot-Watt University Edinburgh CampusDeep Learning Nanodegree, Deep Learning Nanodegree at Udacity
English, Basque, Japanese, Spanish
Github Skills (9)
hardware8
sdk7
computer-vision6
realsense4
ros4
camera-api3
text-to-speech2
localization2
slam1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
SaraCooperAmun/Turtlebot_Rescue_Mission
Dec 2018 - Sep 2019
Contributions:16 commits, 1 PR, 13 pushes in 9 months
EMOROBOCARE/tts_ros
May 2025 - May 2026
Text-to-Speech for ROS 2
Contributions:1 PR, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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