Awards: TRI Young Faculty Researcher Award'24, NSF CAREER Award'23, AFCEA 40 under 40 Award'22; Paper Awards: Best Paper at RSS'25, Best Paper and Student Paper Award Finalist and Best HRI Paper Award Finalist at ICRA’25, Best Systems Paper Award Finalist at HRI'24, Best Demo Award at HRI'24, Best RoboCup Paper at IROS’22, Best Paper Award Finalist and ABB Best Student Paper Award Finalist at IROS’22, Best Technical Advances Paper at HRI'19, Best Demonstration Award at NeurIPS’18.
Research Experience
Currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University, directing the EmPRISE Lab. Previously, an NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow working on food manipulation for assistive feeding tasks at the Personal Robotics Lab, University of Washington.
Education
Ph.D. in Robotics from Georgia Institute of Technology (Advisor: Dr. Charlie Kemp); Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Washington, Computer Science & Engineering (Advisor: Dr. Sidd Srinivasa).
Background
Research Interests: Enabling robots to assist people with mobility limitations in daily living tasks. Fields: Human-Robot Interaction, Haptic Perception, and Robot Manipulation. Summary: Focused on leveraging robot-world physical and social interactions in unstructured human environments to intelligently and efficiently perform relevant activities of daily living.