Lisa Meeden was appointed to the Neil R. Grabois ’57 Professorship in Natural Sciences & Engineering, which was established in 2010 by Eugene M. Lang ’38 to honor Neil Grabois, mathematician and educator. A computer science professor and expert in adaptive robotics and artificial intelligence, Meeden is a leader in machine learning techniques such as artificial neural networks and evolutionary computation as well as developmental robotics, which draws from psychology and neuroscience. She is the recipient of two National Science Foundation grants, the author or co-author of more than 21 papers, and the co-recipient of the National Engineering Education Delivery Systems 2005 Premier Award for Excellence in Engineering Education Courseware.