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Jim McCann

Associate Professor

Robotics Institute

  • Associate Professor
    Robotics Institute
  • (412) 400-3199 (Mobile)
  • 229 Elliot Dunlap Smith Hall, Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

BIO

I am an Assistant Professor in the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute. I’m interested in systems and interfaces that operate in real-time and build user intuition; lately, I’ve been applying these ideas to textiles fabrication and machine knitting as the leader of the Carnegie Mellon Textiles Lab.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Assistant Professor
    Carnegie Mellon University, Robotics Institute, Pittsburgh, United States2017 - present

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Researcher
    Disney Research2014 - 2017
  • Indie Game Creator
    TCHOW2012 - 2014
  • Researcher
    Adobe Creative Technologies Lab2010 - 2012

DEGREES

  • Ph.D.
    Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, United States2005 - 2010
  • B.S., Honors Computer Science, Honors Mathematics
    University of Michigan–Ann Arbor, Computer Science and Mathematics, Ann Arbor, MI, United States2001 - 2005

CAMPUS

  • Pittsburgh