I'm a PhD student in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. My interests are in Machine Learning, AI, and Human-Computer Interaction. More specifically, I'm interested in how learning applications can reduce their uncertainty by proactively asking people (users and non-users) questions. I study both how agents should ask questions to ensure the user understands and answers correctly and how the agent can use the responses. My advisors are Manuela Veloso and Anind Dey.

News and Recent Work

• Internship: This summer, I'll be at Intel Research Seattle working with Daniel Avrahami.
• IJCAI 2009: I will be presenting work at two workshops this summer at IJCAI in Recommender Systems and Intellence and Interaction.
• Visitor Companion Robot: I'm working on the human-robot interaction of a robot, CoBot, that escorts visitors around the CS Department while providing them with information about their meetings. I'm also studying how CoBot can ask the visitor questions when it is lost and needs help with localization.
• AAAI Spring Symposium: I presented my work on asking for help and developing trust from humans. [pdf]