I am a CSAIL Postdoctoral Fellow in the Interactive Robotics Group (IRG) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), working with Professor Julie Shah. I did my Ph.D. in the Verifiable Robotics Research Group (VRRG) with Professor Hadas Kress-Gazit at Cornell University.
I work in algorithmic human robot interaction with a focus on lightweight mathematical abstractions of human-intuitive spatial information. I draw from methods in topology and computational geometry, supplying provable guarantees and quantifiable metrics of seemingly immeasurable human and social-spatial information drawn while permitting the removal of typical a priori resource demands. Importantly, I also approach systems with an objective of ecological validity– real world deploy-ability of systems across user groups and collaborative participatory design to ensure true usability in the wild.