Welcome! I am a Senior Researcher at Fujitsu Research of America in Pittsburgh, PA, working in human-computer interaction.
I completed my Robotics PhD from Carnegie Mellon University in Jan 2025, where I studied human-robot interaction, focusing on personalized context-aware multimodal robot feedback. (Dissertation)
News
- July 2026: Received acceptance for a paper titled “Examining the Effect of Explanations of AI Privacy Redaction in AI-mediated Interactions” to the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES 2027)
- July 2026: Co-author presented a paper titled “User Perceptions vs. Proxy LLM Judges: Privacy and Helpfulness in LLM Responses to Privacy-Sensitive Scenarios” at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) in San Diego, California
- April 2025: Attended the Quori Community Workshop to provide feedback on the in-development Quori 2 robot.
- April 2025: Attended the CMU Agents Workshop and presented a poster titled "Investigating Explainability with a Privacy-Preserving Multi-agent Systems"
- March 2025: Attended the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2025) in Melbourne, Australia and presented a paper titled "Choosing Robot Feedback Style to Optimize Human Exercise Performance"
- February 2025: Started working at Fujistu Research of America as a Senior Researcher
- January 2025: Completed my PhD Defense "Personalized Context-aware Multimodal Robot Feedback"
- August 2024: Attended the IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2024) in Pasadena, California and presented two papers 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"
- August 2024: Presented a poster and demo at the AI-CARING Site Visit at Georgia Tech
- 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 the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (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 the IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (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 the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2022)) (Virtual) and Presented "Context-dependent Personalized Robot Feedback to Improve Learning"
- November 2021: Attended the International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2021) (Virtual) and Presented "Early Prediction of Student Engagement-related Events from Facial and Contextual Features"
- March 2021: Attended the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2021) (Virtual) and Presented "Perception of Emotion in Torso and Arm Movements on Humanoid Robot Quori"
- July 2020: Attended the International Conference on Movement and Computing (MOCO 2020) (Virtual) 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