Postdoctoral Fellow · MIT Media Lab
Developing autonomous robots that shape human-human interaction.
I develop autonomous social robots that support and enrich human-human interactions — combining rigorous user studies with computational methods and learning approaches to build robots that are genuinely for people.
Selected Publications
View all →Interaction-Shaping Robotics: Robots That Influence Interactions between Other Agents
ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction THRI 2024
Templates and Graph Neural Networks for Social Robot Behavior in Small Groups
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction HRI '25
Learning Gaze Behaviors for Balancing Participation in Group Human-Robot Interactions
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction HRI '22
Robot Gaze Can Mediate Participation Imbalance in Groups with Different Skill Levels
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction HRI '21
About
I am a SERC Wallenberg Postdoctoral Fellow in the Personal Robots Group at MIT Media Lab. My research focuses on interaction-shaping robotics — designing algorithms and systems that enable robots to act as autonomous facilitators of human-human interaction, rather than simply responding to individual users. In my PhD at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, I investigated both heuristic and learning-based approaches to this problem, exploring how a robot can perceive a group dynamics and act to benefit individuals and the group as a whole. Before academia, I worked on mobile robot navigation in the Corporate Research at KUKA.
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