Holly Dinkel is finishing a Ph.D. in aerospace engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where she researches robotic caretaking as a NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Fellow with the NASA Ames Research Center Intelligent Robotics Group and the NASA Johnson Space Center Dexterous Robotics Laboratory. She previously completed an M.S. in aeronautics and astronautics and a certificate in entrepreneurship at Stanford University, as well as a B.S. and B.A in chemical engineering and music, respectively, at the University of Missouri, Columbia.

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