Taylor Kessler Faulkner is a lecturer in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington (UW). She recently finished a postdoc as a UW Data Science Postdoctoral Fellow in Siddhartha Srinivasa's Personal Robotics Lab at UW, after receiving a PhD in Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin where she was an NSF Graduate Research Fellow with Prof. Andrea Thomaz in the Socially Intelligent Machines Lab. Taylor received her B.S. in Computer Science from Denison University in 2016, with minors in Mathematics and Music Performance.

Taylor is currently teaching ECE P 545, a course on mobile autonomous robots for professional master's students. Taylor's research spans a wide range of human-robot interaction and machine-learning topics. Her postdoctoral work focused on assistive robotics, specifically the Assistive Dextrous Arm (ADA), an assistive feeding robot for people with upper-extremity mobility impairments. Her PhD thesis work was based on robots learning from imperfect human teachers using interactive reinforcement learning.