Scholar
Jivko Sinapov
Google Scholar ID: -mHoWKEAAAAJ
Associate Professor, Tufts University
Citations & Impact
Citations
2,631
H-index
25
i10-index
45
Publications
20
Co-authors
110
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- In 2023, supervised student Andre Cleaver to win the Best Video Award at HRI 2023
- Received the NSF CAREER Award in 2023 for the project 'Learning and Sharing Transferable Grounded Object Knowledge for Collaborative Robots'
- Awarded AFRL funding in 2022 for the CURE project
- Participated in the NSF-funded 'Mutually Assistive Robotics' project in 2022
- Co-organized the AAAI 2021 Fall Symposium on Artificial Intelligence for Human-Robot Interaction
- Received NSF funding in 2021 for integrating AI into upper elementary education
- Led a team that won the Verizon 100K 5G EdTech Challenge in 2019
- Published multiple papers in top venues including ICRA, RSS, ICDL, and JAIR on topics such as transfer learning, multimodal perception, and creative problem solving
Research Experience
- Director of the Multimodal Learning, Interaction, and Perception (MuLIP) Lab at Tufts University
- Participated in the DARPA-funded SAIL-ON project on the Science of Artificial Intelligence and Learning for Open-world Novelty
- Collaborated with Tufts CEEO and Maryville University on an NSF-funded project integrating AI with elementary engineering and English education
- Involved in the NSF National Robotics Initiative-funded 'Mutually Assistive Robotics' project
- Collaborated with AIS on the AFRL-funded 'Common Unifying Representation Embeddings' (CURE) project
- Led development of TRAinAR, an Augmented Reality tool for teaching robots
