Alyssa Pierson is a research scientist in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She obtained her BS in engineering from Harvey Mudd College in 2010, and her MS and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Boston University in 2016 and 2017, respectively. While at Boston University, she was awarded the Clare Boothe Luce Fellowship and was a Best Paper Finalist at the 2016 International Conference on Robotics and Automation. Her research interests focus on trust and cooperation in multi-agent systems, distributed control, and socially-compliant autonomous system design.