PROFESSORS IN HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION
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Dorsa Sadigh
I am an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University. My research interests lie at the intersection of robotics and machine learning. Specifically, my group is interested in developing robot learning algorithms that learn from humans and adapt to ...
Abhishek Gupta
Abhishek Gupta is an assistant professor in computer science and engineering at the Paul G. Allen School at the University of Washington, where he leads the Washington Embodied Intelligence and Robotics Development (WEIRD) Lab. Previously, Gupta was a post-doctoral scholar at ...
Jana Košecká
Jana Košecká has taught at George Mason University since 1999. Košecká's research interests are the acquisition of static, dynamic, and semantic models of environments using visual sensing, object recognition, scene parsing, and human-robot interaction. She has over 90 select...
Nilanjan Sarkar
I am interested in the analysis, design, and development of intelligent and autonomous systems that can work with people in a versatile and natural way. The applications of this research range from helping individuals with autism and other developmental disabilities in learning s...
Nabil Simaan
Nabil Simaan received his Ph.D. from the Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, in 2002. In 2003-2004 he served as Postdoctoral Research Scientist at Johns Hopkins University National Science Foundation (NSF) ERC-CISST. In 2005, he joined Columbia University, New York, NY, as...
Michael Lewis
Michael Lewis is a professor of Informatics and Distributed Systems and Intelligent Systems Program at the University of Pittsburgh. His research focuses on human interaction with intelligent automation. Since conducting research in modeling human operators for his dissertation a...
Missy Cummings
As one of the U.S. Navy’s first female fighter pilots and an engineer, Mary “Missy” Cummings is accustomed to breaking barriers and solving problems. A naval officer and military pilot from 1988-1999, Cummings was one of the U.S. Navy's first female fighter pilots. She i...
Stephen Guy
Stephen J. Guy joined the Department of Computer Science & Engineering as an assistant professor in 2012 before being promoted to an associate professor in 2018. He also serves as the director of graduate studies. Guy received his M.S. (2009) and Ph.D. (2012) in computer science ...
Odest Chadwicke Jenkins
Odest Chadwicke Jenkins, Ph.D., is a Professor of Robotics and a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan. Professor Jenkins earned his B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics at Alma College (1996), M.S. in Computer Science at Georg...
Jessica Burgner-Kahrs
Dr. Jessica Burgner-Kahrs is Professor with the Departments of Mathematical & Computational Sciences, Computer Science, and Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, and the founding Director of the Continuum Robotics Laboratory at the University of Toronto, Canada. She received her D...
Richard Voyles
Prof. Voyles is now the Executive Director of the University of Texas at Arlington Research Institute (UTARI). Prof. Voyles retired from Purdue in January, 2025, as the Daniel C. Lewis Professor of the Purdue Polytechnic. He was head of the Collaborative Robotics Lab at Purdue ...
M. Ani Hsieh
M. Ani Hsieh is an Associate Professor in Computer and Information Science and Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at the University of Pennsylvania. She also serves as Deputy Director of the GRASP Laboratory and ROBO Program Chair.
Mircea Nicolescu
Mircea Nicolescu is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno and co-director of the Computer Vision Laboratory (CVL). He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Southern California in 2003, a M.S. degree also from USC in 1999, and...
Byung-Cheol Min
Dr. Byung-Cheol (“B.C.”) Min is a Professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Intelligent Systems Engineering at the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University Bloomington. He joined the unive...
Monica Nicolescu
Dr. Monica Nicolescu is a Professor with the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the University of Nevada, Reno and is the Director of the UNR Robotics Research Lab. Dr. Nicolescu earned her PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of Southern California (200...
Casey Bennett
Casey Bennett specializes in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics in healthcare, with over 20 years’ experience in data science, machine learning, and analytics. He was formerly a data scientist at several major healthcare organizations: Cigna, CVS Health, and Centerstone Resea...
J.D. Zamfirescu-Pereira
I am an assistant professor in the computer science department at UCLA, studying joint human/AI systems using a systems HCI approach. I am recruiting PhD students this cycle! Apply to UCLA Computer Science (by Dec 15, 2025) and mention my name in your application. I also have ...
Devin J. Balkcom
I'm a professor in the Dartmouth Computer Science department, currently serving as department chair. I co-direct the Reality and Robotics Lab
Constantine Lignos
I direct the Broadening Linguistic Technologies Lab at Brandeis University, where I am affiliated with the Computer Science Department, Computational Linguistics Program, and Linguistics Program. The overarching goal of my research is to broaden the depth and breadth of human lan...
Rohan Paleja
Dr. Rohan Paleja is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University. He directs the Strategies for Collaboration, Autonomy, Learning, and Exploration in Robotics Lab. The SCALE Robotics Lab focuses on advancing machine learning and artificial int...