2022

November

• I am excited to join the Siegel Research Fellows Program as a fellow for the 2022-2023 academic year! The cohort of fellows will conduct research broadly at the intersection of social science and technology, with a focus on questions around intelligence, information, innovation, development, decisions and design.

July

• Our paper "An Empirical Study of Reward Explanations with Human-Robot Interaction Applications" was accepted to the Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) journal. This paper was presented at IROS 2022 in Kyoto, Japan.

June

• Our paper "The Situation Awareness Framework for Explainable AI (SAFE-AI) and Human Factors Considerations for XAI Systems" was published in the International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction (IJHCI).

2021

November

• I presented our paper titled "Explaining Reward Functions to Humans for Better Human-Robot Collaboration" at the AI-HRI Fall Symposium. The presentation can be found here.

September

• I was a panelist for the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs Global Policy Dialogue Series on the Future of Work.

July

• I was the lead organizer for the RSS Workshop on Accessibility of Robot Programming and the Work of the Future.

  • I gave a guest lecture for the University of Zurich summer school on Leadership and the Future of Work.

June

• I was a panelist on the "Old Problems, New Research Generations" panel at the Industry Studies Association conference along with Work of the Future research team colleagues: MIT Institute Professor of Political Science Suzanne Berger, MIT Emeritus Professor of Economics Michael Piore, executive director of the Industrial Performance Center at MIT Ben Armstrong, and Professor of Government at UT Austin Rachel Wellhausen.

  • I was a panelist on the "The Future of Manufacturing: Innovation, Automation, and Skills" panel at the Industry Studies Association conference. This panel was chaired by Elisabeth Reynolds, our Ohio Research Team colleague and the Special Assistant to the President for Manufacturing and Economic Development in the National Economic Council.

May

• I co-presented our paper titled "The Dynamics of Trust and Adaptability in Human-Robot Interaction" at the SpaceCHI Workshop at the CHI conference.

March

• I gave a talk in the Yochan Lab at ASU titled "Transparent Value Alignment."

January

• Our paper "The State of Industrial Robotics: Emerging Technologies, Challenges, and Key Research Directions" was published in the Foundations and Trends in Robotics journal.

2020

May

• I presented our paper titled "A Situation Awareness-Based Framework for Design and Evaluation of Explainable AI" at the International Workshop on Explainable and Transparent Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. The presentation can be found here.

March

• I presented our paper titled "Trust Considerations for Explainable Robots: A Human Factors Perspective" at the HRI Workshop on Assessing, Explaining, and Conveying Robot Proficiency for Human-Robot Teaming. The presentation can be found here.

2019

August

• I participated in the Doctoral Consortium at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). I presented my extended abstract titled "Preference Elicitation and Explanation in Iterative Planning."