press & talks
Press & Media
- Designing for Outer Space (MIT News), 2024
- AEROS CubeSat Launches to Study Ocean Health (MIT Aero/Astro), 2024
- AEROS CubeSat Mission presented at MIT Portugal Program (MIT Aero/Astro), 2023
- Living the Life I Used to Dream About (Featured at TechGirlz Conference), 2022
- 2022 - Year in Review (College of Idaho Annual Scholarship Gala), 2022
- Prestigious Graduate Schools Await Recent Alumni (College of Idaho Newsletter), 2021
- A Laboratory Fit for Lockdown (Columbia Magazine), 2021
- Program alumna pays it forward by helping new students learn to SURF (Stanford), 2021
- Annika Thomas Works on Plasma Engines for Space Propulsion (Stanford), 2020
- Finding the Way: The Thomas Tutors (College of Idaho Magazine), 2018
TEDxMIT and TEDxBoston talks
Selected Invited Talks
- MIT SpaceTech Lightning Talk: Rovers, Rocks, and Reasoning: AI on the Lunar Surface, Apr 2025
- Imagination in Action IEEE Technical Talk: Building Collaborative Spatial Intelligence for Multi-Agent Robots , Apr 2025
- Imagination in Action Forbes Lightning Talk: Enabling Multi-Agent Robots with Collaborative Visual Intelligence, Apr 2025
- AirLab at Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute: Graph-Theoretic Object-Based Localization in GPS-Denied Environments, Feb 2025
- Women Innovators SheTech Conference: Keynote, Jan 2025
- MIT AI Conference: Spatial AI for Collaborative Robotics, Oct 2024
- MIT Perception and Localization Seminar: Open-Set Object-Based Localization, Oct 2024
- John F. Kennedy High School: Computer Vision in Astronomy, Oct 2024
- TEDxBoston: Robotics and Regolith: Building Habitats from Moon Dust, July 2024
- MIT Media Lab (Roxbury Latin): Vision in Space, June 2024
- TEDxMIT: Collaborative Vision Systems for Space Exploration, Apr 2024
- Universidad del Valle de Guatemala Women in Engineering Program: From Pathology to Path Planning: Exploring New Frontiers in Robotics, Apr 2024