About Me

My research intersects user experience design, robotics, and artificial intelligence. I develop and evaluate innovative user interfaces that enable seamless human-robot task communication, ultimately empowering non-experts to create personalized robotic applications.

News

3.25

🏆 Won best HRI short contribution for An Interaction Specification Language for Human-Robot Interaction.

3.25

Invited talk at the HRI 2025 workshop on The Road to Reliable Robots: Interpretable, Accessible, and Reproducible HRI Research.

12.24

Guest lecture for CMSC 722 at the University of Maryland, College Park.

11.24

2nd AAAI Fall Symposium on Unifying Representations for Robot Application Development.

8.24

Completed my postdoc and began a full position at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory.

4.24

Invited talk at Johns Hopkins University LCSR seminar.

3.24

Full paper talk at HRI 2024: Goal-Oriented End-User Development of Robots.

Projects

Uncertainty Expression

AAMAS 2025 paper

Three different interfaces for eliciting probability distributions from users.

POLARIS

HRI 2024 paper

Robot end-user programming with assistance from AI planning.

INTERACTION SPECIFICATION LANGUAGE

UR-RAD 2023 symposium website

RO-MAN 2023 paper

AAAI Spring Symposium 2023 paper

Standardizing robot application development via a common, intermediate representation.

TABULA

HRI 2023 paper, video, code

Facilitating on-the-fly robot application development through a combination of sketching and spoken language.

CROWDSOURCING TASK TRACES

HRI 2023 LBR paper, video, code+data+study

Collecting examples of step-by-step tasks through an easy-to-use crowdsourcing interface.

FIGARO

CHI 2021 paper, video, code

A tabletop programming-by-demonstration interface for HRI. Play out what you want the robot to do with figurines, and Figaro will assemble an executable program.