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= Monica Anderson = Monica Anderson is an American computer scientist who is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Alabama. Anderson works on robotics, with a focus on multi-agent systems, multi-robot systems, and user interfaces. Anderson received the UPE Excellence in Instruction Award in 2008, and co-organized the AAAI 2008 Workshop on Mobility and Manipulation at the Twenty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

Education
Anderson earned a B.S. degree in Computer Science from Chicago State University in 1990, and a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 2006.

Research
Anderson is director of the Distributed Autonomy Lab, which includes several projects related to multi-agent and multi-robot systems and user interfaces, and their effect on trust. Outcomes from these projects include identification of mitigating factors on operator’s trust of autonomous systems, mechanisms for increasing self-efficacy in computer science introductory courses using robotics, and approaches on improving the design of autonomous device frameworks.