Rebecca Hutchinson is an associate professor at Oregon State University, with a joint appointment across the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Department of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences. She is also affiliated with the Center for Quantitative Life Sciences and the Collaborative Robotics and Intelligent Systems (CoRIS) Institute. She became interested in interdisciplinary work in machine learning and quantitative ecology during her postdoctoral studies with the Institute for Computational Sustainability and as an NSF SEES Fellow, advised by Tom Dietterich and Matt Betts. Prior to that, she completed her Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon University with Tom Mitchell.