I have joined Apple's Education Services team as a Machine Learning specialist.

I received my PhD degree from MIT. My thesis was on Lifelong Personalization For Social Robot Learning Companions: Interactive Student Modeling Across Tasks And Over Time.

I gave a Spotlight Talk on my work to develop transferrable models of student learning at the RL4ED Workshop held at EDM 2021

Paper Accepted! Lifelong Personalization via Gaussian Process Modeling for Long-term HRI was published in the latest issue of Frontiers in Robotics & AI

I am Co-organizing a workshop on Lifelong Learning and Personalization in Long-Term Human-Robot Interaction (LEAP-HRI) at HRI 2021

Paper Accepted! Towards Transferrable Personalized Student Models in Educational Games' was accepted as a full paper at AAMAS 2021.

I gave a talk (by video) at the UCHicago HCI Club Seminar series. Thanks to the organizers for inviting me!

Presented my Doctoral Consortium submission at the AAAI Conference on AI and Interactive Digital Entertainment. Thanks to the organizers and other speakers for hosting a great event!

I gave a talk (by video) at the Colorado School of Mines MIRROR Lab Summer speaker series. Thanks to the organizers for inviting me!

I attended RSS 2020 and the 2020 RSS Pioneers workshop. Thanks to the organizers and speakers for hosting a great event!"

I participated in the "I am a Scientist" campaign, a public outreach effort to expose students to the diverse range of personalities, interests, backgrounds, and pursuits that drive scientific discovery and progress.

I gave a talk at the Workshop on AI for Social Impact at the Harvard Center for Research on Computation and Society

Traveled to Cambridge, UK for ACII 2019, where I presented work on Frustratingly Easy Personalization for Real-time Affect Interpretation of Facial Expression'

I spoke (by video) on a panel at the Children's Media Conference in Sheffield, UK!

Paper Accepted! Frustratingly Easy Personalization for Real-time Affect Interpretation of Facial Expression' was accepted for poster presentation at ACII 2019. See you in Cambridge!

I was invited to speak at EmTech Caribbean about how social robots can be used as a tool to aid human social and cognitive development. Thanks to the organizers and other speakers for hosting a great event!

Traveled to Daegu, Korea for HRI 2019, where I co-organized a workshop on Personalization in Long-term Human-Robot Interaction and presented a poster on Pronunciation-based Child-Robot Game Interactions to Promote Literacy Skills'

I presented "A Social Robot System for Modeling Children's Word Pronunciation" at AAMAS 2018, part of the Federated AI Meeting (FAIM) in Stockholm.

I "graduated" from the MIT Kaufman Teaching Certificate Program (KTCP), certifying my completion of a series of teaching workshops and activites to prepare early-career researchers for university-level teaching.

I was invited to give a talk at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center on 'Learning Affective and Cognitive Models for Robot Tutoring.' Thanks to the Watson for Education team for hosting me!

Paper Accepted! Personalized Robot Tutors that Learn from Multimodal Data was accepted to the AAMAS 2018 Doctoral Consortium.

Paper Accepted! A Social Robot System for Modeling Children's Word Pronunciation was accepted as a full paper at AAMAS 2018.

Jibo, a robot I helped develop, made the cover of Time magazine and was named one of the 25 Best Inventions of 2017! Congrats to the Jibo team and the other awardees

I re-enrolled at MIT to complete my Ph.D. in the Personal Robots Group at the MIT Media Lab!

I was invited to give a talk at Affectiva, Inc. on Affect-Aware Social Robot Tutors

I remotely moderated the 2016 HRI Pioneers Workshop Panel. Thanks to all the attendees and panel participants for their insightful questions and answers!

Paper Accepted! Affect-aware Student Models for Robot Tutors was accepted as a full paper at AAMAS 2016. Learning from The Wizard: Programming Social Interaction through Teleoperated Demonstrations was also accepted as an Extended Abstract.

Paper Accepted! Affective Personalization of a Social Robot Tutor for Children’s Second Language Skills was accepted as a full paper at AAAI 2016.

Paper Accepted! My extended abstract was accepted to the 2015 AAAI Fall Symposium on Artificial Intelligence for Human-Robot Interaction.

I've started work full-time at Jibo, a robotics started founded by my advisor, Cynthia Breazeal, to develop the world's first social robot for the home

I have completed my Master's Thesis and was awarded an S.M. Degree in Media Arts & Sciences!

I was invited to speak at the 2015 Media Lab Spring Member's Event! My talk covered recent advances in Social Robotics and current research in the Personal Robots Group

I attended HRI 2015 and the 2015 HRI Pioneers workshop in Portland, Oregon. I was elected to the organizing committee for the 2016 HRI Pioneers Workshop as the Panel Chair!

My short paper submission describing my Master's Thesis work was accepted to the 2015 HRI Pioneers workshop. HRI Pioneers is a highly selective workshop held in conjunction with HRI 2015 that 'seeks to foster creativity and collaboration surrounding key challenges in human-robot interaction and empower students early in their academic careers'

I attended the AAAI Fall Symposium on Artificial Intelligence for Human-Robot Interaction in Arlington, VA where I gave a lightning talk on my Extended Abstract.

I traveled to Bielefeld, Germany to present our paper entitled 'Personalizing Robot Tutors to Individuals' Learning Differences' at the 9th ACM/IEEE Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2014).

I moved to Boston to start graduate school! I am currently a Graduate Research Assistant advised by Cynthia Breazeal in the Personal Robots Group at the MIT Media Lab.