Milda Zizyte

Milda Zizyte is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Brown University, where she focuses on integrating safety-critical practices into robotics software education and research.

Her academic background includes:

• PhD from Carnegie Mellon University (2020)
• MS from Carnegie Mellon University (2016)

Her research centers on making robotics software safety accessible through automated tools, with emphasis on improving testing methodologies, deriving mathematical models of robot behavior, and simplifying functionality specifications. She advocates for treating software as a rigorous engineering discipline, particularly in safety-critical contexts like robotics.

As an educator, she designs interactive and inclusive classrooms to equip students with practical engineering skills. Her taught courses include:

• CSCI 0111 - Computing Foundations: Data
• CSCI 0200 - Program Design with Data Structures and Algorithms
• CSCI 1600 - Real-Time and Embedded Software
• CSCI 1952Y - Computer Architecture