Elizabeth Croft

Elizabeth A. Croft is a Canadian roboticist known for her work on human–robot interaction. She is the vice president and provost of the University of Victoria.

Education and career
Croft graduated from the University of British Columbia in 1988, she earned a master's degree at the University of Waterloo in 1992, and completed her Ph.D. at the University of Toronto in 1995.

She became a faculty member at the University of British Columbia, where she was a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Marshall Bauder Professor in Engineering Economics, and associate dean of the Faculty of Applied Science. She was the NSERC Chair for Women in Science and Engineering (BC&Yukon) from 2010 to 2015 and chaired the national network of CWSEs. She moved to Monash University in Melbourne, Australia in 2017 as dean of engineering and professor in the Departments of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering.

Since July 1, 2022, Croft has served as the vice president academic and provost of the University of Victoria, in British Columbia, Canada where she is a professor in Mechanical Engineering and in Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Recognition
Croft was named a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2010, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering in 2021. She is also a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia and the Canadian Academy of Engineering.