Rebecca Alcock
The work of NCCR Automation is crucial for ensuring our technical systems meet society’s expectations and aspirations of safety, sustainability, and fairness.
Rebecca Alcock is a doctoral student currently on a research exchange through the NCCR Automation Fellowship at ETH Zürich, working with Professor Gabriela Hug in the Power Systems Laboratory. Rebecca’s home institution is the University of Wisconsin, where she is part of the Analytics for Human Development Lab. Rebecca’s research mission is to leverage predictive and prescriptive analytics to solve pressing climate-health challenges and use these complex and interdisciplinary problems as motivation for theoretical contributions. Her dissertation research seeks to make renewable energy design and implementation more accessible to health facilities in resource-limited settings and takes special interest in micro e-mobility networks. Rebecca also holds BS and MS degrees in biomedical engineering.
