Alexandra Bremers is a PhD Candidate in Information Science at Cornell University, based at Cornell Tech (New York, NY). She works with Wendy Ju, Francois Guimbretiere and Steve Marschner on interaction design for multi-modal, physical tasks.

Alexandra holds an M.S. in Information Science from Cornell University, an M.S. in Artificial Intelligence from Utrecht University, and a B.S. in Industrial Design from Eindhoven University of Technology. Additionally, she studied automotive human-technology interaction at Warwick University. From 2017 to 2020, she worked as a Human-Machine Interface Researcher at Jaguar Land Rover, UK, on collaborative research with Cambridge University. While at Jaguar, she was selected to join the 2018 Oxford-Cambridge cohort of Rising Women in Science and Engineering (RisingWISE), and was recognized for innovation through the JLR & Tata Innovista competitions. She also spent time at Toyota Research Institute and Accenture Labs R&D in the Bay Area, and the NTU IoX Center at National Taiwan University.

In addition to her technical work, Alexandra has been involved in art and design projects with Next Nature Network and Dutch Design Week, and won awards in creative and print writing. In 2020, she received the Royal Commission of 1851 Industrial Fellowship to pursue a PhD in Engineering at the University of Cambridge.

Alexandra’s work has been published at top ACM/IEEE conferences IROS, CHI, HRI, TEI, AutoUI, SCF, CUI, and RO-MAN, as well as in the journals IEEE IV and Elsevier IJHCS.

Her cv can be found here, her resume here, and her papers on Google Scholar or ResearchGate.