Dr. Audrey Aldridge, Ph.D.

Dr. Audrey Aldridge joined the Robotics Research Center as a Postdoctoral Fellow in February 2025. Her work focuses on human-agent teaming for cooperative and tactical tasks in dynamic environments, advancing human-autonomy interaction through enhanced coordination, shared situational awareness, and trust-building in autonomous systems.

Dr. Audrey Aldridge obtained her Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from Mississippi State University, where she studied human-robot interaction, human-machine interfaces, and collaborative autonomous behaviors for human-robot teaming. For her dissertation, she investigated how limitations in a team’s common understanding influence human–(multi) robot teaming dynamics, with a focus on trust and reliance interdependencies across human-robot and inter-robot cooperation.

Prior to her graduate research in human–robot teaming, Dr. Aldridge earned a bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering, which she applied while working abroad to develop brain-computer interface–driven virtual reality serious games for stroke neurorehabilitation.