Papers published: 'Implicit Communication in Human-Robot Collaborative Transport' at HRI 2025; 'Learning to Extrapolate Human Preferences for Preference-Aligned Path Planning' at ICRA 2024; 'Self-Supervised Terrain Representation Learning from Unconstrained Robot Experience' at CoRL 2023. Awards: Best Thesis award from the Department of Computer Science, UT Austin in 2023; Distinction in Research from the College of Natural Sciences, UT Austin in 2023.
Research Experience
Was a member of the Turing Scholars Honors Program and the Autonomous Mobile Robotics Laboratory at UT, working on terrain-aware outdoor robot navigation; Prior to joining U-M, worked at Amazon Lab126 on Simultaneous Localization and Mapping for the Astro consumer robot.
Education
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin; Advisor: Prof. Joydeep Biswas.
Background
Research interests: Physical human-robot collaboration and robot learning. Brief introduction: A Robotics PhD candidate at the University of Michigan.