About Me

I am a Ph.D. graduand in the Department of Computer Science at the Johns Hopkins University. I am a member of the Intuitive Computing Laboratory, which is affiliated with the Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare and the Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics. I am advised by Dr. Chien-Ming Huang and Dr. Russell Taylor.

I want to make computer and robot artificial intelligence a better collaborator with humans by endowing them with an understanding of human beings. My PhD work has focused on modeling human behaviors to enable human-aware capabilities in HRI/HCI and promote fluent and effective interactions. I have so far leveraged implicit human behavioral responses to unexpected robot errors in physical-HRI for automatic robot error detection. I have also used these responses to identify confusing during augmented reality assisted tasks. I have demonstrated that this approach can improve the reliability of detecting machine errors and user confusion, that it can enable systems to interact with humans to correct these situations, and that this improves humans’ assessment of machine reliability and confidence in their collaboration.