Roberta Klatzky is a Professor of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. She specializes in human perception and cognition, particularly relating to perception and representation of space and perception in nonvisual modalities. She has done extensive research on human haptic and visual object recognition, navigation under visual and nonvisual guidance, and perceptually guided action. Her work has application to navigation aids for the blind, haptic interfaces, exploratory robotics, teleoperation, and virtual environments. The impact of Klatzky's research in these fields has been recognized by numerous organizations, and she has been elected as a fellow in the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, the Society of Experimental Psychologists, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Klatzky received a B.A. in mathematics from the University of Michigan in 1968 and a Ph.D. in psychology from Stanford University in 1972. Prior to working at CMU, Klatzky was employed at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Klatzky is a member of the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition and the Human Computer Interaction Institute at CMU.