Artist Bio
Stejara I. Dinulescu is an artist and Ph.D. candidate in Media Arts and Technology at UC Santa Barbara. Her creative practice examines human perception and action through questions of agency, free will, consciousness, embodiment, and computational intelligence. She develops assistive, wearable haptic technologies and robotic systems for human-machine interaction in the RE TOUCH Lab. She holds a B.S. in Psychology and B.A.s in Studio Art and Creative Computing (Southern Methodist University), as well as a M.S degree in Media Arts and Technology (UCSB). She received the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship in 2021, and her work has been published across multiple disciplines, including haptics, robotics, and psychology venues.