Rachel Holladay is the Asness Family Foundation Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (MEAM)  and a member of the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing & Perception (GRASP) lab at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to UPenn, she completed a Ph.D. (2024) in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, advised by Prof. Tomas Lozano-Perez and Prof. Alberto Rodriguez, and a B.S. (2017) in Computer Science and Robotics from CMU. Her research focuses on developing algorithms and models that enable robots to robustly perform long-horizon, contact-rich manipulation tasks in everyday environments.