David Feil-Seifer
Scholar

David Feil-Seifer

Google Scholar ID: m1VxcKcAAAAJ
Professor, University of Nevada, Reno
Artificial IntelligenceRoboticsHuman-Robot InteractionSocially Assistive RoboticsComputer
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
4,037
 
H-index
30
 
i10-index
58
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
121
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • - NSF/CRA Computing Innovation Fellowship
  • - Mellon Award for Mentoring
  • - Member of the Order of Arete
  • - Mentored over 100 undergraduate students, many of whom have participated in research publications and gone on to successful careers in robotics and related fields
  • - Published extensively on autonomous systems capable of interpreting and responding to human social behavior
Research Experience
  • - Co-PI in the NSF AI Institute for Advancing Education (AI4EE) to develop AI solutions addressing the shortage of speech-language pathologists in the US education system
  • - Applications of socially assistive robotics (SAR) in healthcare and education
  • - People-aware robot navigation that optimizes for both social appropriateness and goal-oriented behavior
  • - Long-term human-robot interaction (lt-HRI) studying how humans develop and sustain relationships with robots in real-world settings
Education
  • - B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Rochester
  • - M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California’s Viterbi School of Engineering, under the guidance of Prof. Maja Matarić
  • - Postdoctoral fellowship at Yale University’s Social Robotics Lab, working with Prof. Brian Scassellati
Background
  • Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno, and Founding Director of the Autonomous Robotics Center of Nevada (ARCoN). Research interests include human-robot interaction, socially assistive robotics (SAR), socially aware robot navigation, and long-term human-robot interaction.
Miscellany
  • Personal interests and hobbies not mentioned