Welcome! I am a Robotics Ph.D. Candidate at Carnegie Mellon University studying human-robot interaction, focusing on the impact of robot nonverbal behavior.
I will be graduating in late 2024, and am looking for a new career opportunity in human-robot or human-AI interaction.
News
June 2024: Received acceptance for two papers to RO-MAN 2024 titled Effects of Feedback Styles on Performance and Preference for an Exercise Coach" and Older Adults' Preferences for Feedback Cadence from an Exercise Coach Robot"
April 2024: Attended the AI-CARING Student Symposium in Boston
March 2024: Presented a workshop paper titled "Contextual Bandit Approach to Generating Robot Feedback for Human Exercise" at HRI 2024 in Boulder, Colorado
August 2023: Completed my PhD Proposal "Personalized Context-aware Affective Nonverbal Robot Feedback"
August 2023: Presented a poster and a demo at the AI-CARING Site Visit and attended the AI-CARING Student Symposium at CMU
March 2023: Attended the AI-CARING Student Symposium at CMU
August 2022: Attended RO-MAN 2022 in Naples, Italy and Presented "Affective Robot Behavior Improves Learning in a Sorting Game"
Summer 2022: Internship at NVIDIA to develop a task specification interface where the human can specify their preferences iteratively on a complex task (such as grocery packing) so the robot can customize how it performs a task
April 2022: Attended the AI-CARING Student Symposium at Georgia Tech
March 2022: Attended the Context-awareness in HRI Workshop (part of HRI 2022) (Virtual) and Presented "Context-dependent Personalized Robot Feedback to Improve Learning"
November 2021: Attended the ICSR 2021 (Virtual) and Presented "Early Prediction of Student Engagement-related Events from Facial and Contextual Features"
March 2021: Attended HRI 2021 (Virtual) and Presented "Perception of Emotion in Torso and Arm Movements on Humanoid Robot Quori"
October 2020: Check out a new blog article "Generate Latex-Friendly Figures with Matplotlib".
August 2020: Check out a new blog article "Multiple Stimuli, One Question using Qualtrics".
July 2020: Attended MOCO 2020 (Virtual) Conference and Presented "Feasible Stylized Motion: Robotic Manipulator Imitation of a Human Demonstration with Collision Avoidance and Style Parameters in Increasingly Cluttered Environments".
Summer 2019: Internship at Siemens to develop a demonstration of a robot imitating human movement in real-time towards the goal of creating socially-aware, cognizant manufacturing assistants for the factory for the future.
May 2019: Graduated with my Masters in Mechanical Engineering under Dr. Amy LaViers! Thesis titled: " Developing and evaluating a model for human motion to facilitate low degree-of-freedom robot imitation of human movement".
May 2019: My Masters advisor Dr. Amy LaViers post about my thesis performance
June 2018: Thanks to Dr. Marco Gillies for mentioning me in his post about the Movement and Computing 2018 Conference