Clara Bender

Position: PhD Student

Focus: Human-Robot Collaboration

Clara Bender is a PhD candidate in the Aeronautics and Astronautics department at Stanford University. She earned her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Virginia in 2024 and worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory as a post-baccalaureate researcher. Clara’s research focuses on human-robot collaboration and leveraging human data for robot learning.