The STARI Team
Dr. Rachael Bevill Burns
Director of the STARI Lab and Max Planck Partner Group Leader
Rachael Bevill Burns is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. She earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) in Stuttgart, Germany, where she first started as a Whitaker International Fellow in 2017. Burns earned her Bachelor and Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering in 2015 and 2017 at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
Burns was named a 2021 HRI Pioneer and a 2023 RSS Pioneer. Her research lab, STARI, is one of five Max Planck Partner Groups in the US, a prestigious affiliation with the Max Planck Society in Germany promoting cutting-edge, collaborative international research.
Current Students
Alexander Krneta
Doctoral Researcher
Anik Muhury
Doctoral Researcher
GATE Fellow
Jared Schlak
Doctoral Researcher
AFIT-CI Fellow
Laura Smith
Graduate Researcher
Kevin Lam
Graduate Researcher
Ethan Miller
Graduate Researcher
AURA Award Recipient
Erik Bright
Undergraduate Researcher
Ella Mather
Undergraduate Researcher
Josef Govednik
Undergraduate Researcher
