I am a PhD Candidate in the Human-Robot
Interaction Lab at Tufts
University, studying under professor Matthias
Scheutz.
This semester (Spring 2017) I am also employed
as a Teaching Fellow (i.e., Lecturer) at Tufts University.
I will be joining Colorado School of Mines as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science in Fall 2017
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As natural language capable robots and other agents become
more commonplace, the ability for these agents to understand truly
natural human speech is becoming increasingly important. What is
more, these agents must be able to understand truly natural human
speech in realistic scenarios, in which an agent may have
uncertain or partial knowledge of its environment.
As such, I
am interested in developing cognitively inspired architectural
mechanisms which will allow robots to understand natural language in
uncertain and open-worlds. My work towards this goal has primarily
focused on the problem of
Through my work on these two problems, I am (1) developing a
natural language understanding framework that allows
robots to engage in more realistic task-based dialogue with
their human teammates, and (2) developing computational models
of
My OS of choice is Ubuntu. My language of choice is Scala. I
prefer to travel by foot, while reading a good book.
I'm passionate about sharing my knowledge, and aspire towards a career
in academia.