Ashley Novat is a research assistant at ARG, where she is also conducting her senior thesis research. She is an undergraduate student pursuing a B.S.E. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Princeton University. She has experience designing circuits and embedded systems that connect sensing, control, and computation, as well as developing software for specific hardware applications. Her interests lie in robotic fabrication, human-robot collaboration, and how electrical and computational systems can make automated construction more responsive, reliable, and scalable.