I am an Assistant Professor of Robotics at the University of Michigan, where I run the Fluent Robotics Lab.
Prior to that, I was a postdoc with Prof. Siddhartha Srinivasa at the University of Washington. I received my Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from Cornell University, and a Diploma in mechanical engineering from the National Technical University of Athens.
My goal is to build robots that fluently work with and around people in dynamic and unstructured environments. To this end, I develop mathematical models, algorithms, and systems to give robots mobility, manipulation, and interaction capabilities to seamlessly integrate in the physical and social environment.
Here is my CV.
News
05/19/2025: Invited talk at the ICRA workshop on long-term human motion prediction. [video]
05/01/2025: Our robotic pixel art system to appear in the Arts in Robotics Session at ICRA 2025.
01/27/2025: Paper on on push-based multi-object rearrangement accepted to ICRA 2025.
12/04/2024: Paper on human-robot collaborative transport accepted to HRI 2025.
10/29/2024: Paper on the complexity of social navigation scenarios accepted to RA-L.
10/01/2024: I'm helping organize ICRA and HRI 2025 as a PC member.
09/20/2024: Invited article on modeling traffic flows with braids on the cover of IJRR!
09/15/2024: Invited article from the AAAI NFH program published in the AI Magazine.
07/19/2024: Best paper award at the RSS social navigation workshop.
05/14/2024: Paper on HOUND, our off-road robot accepted to RSS.
03/28/2024: Paper on manipulation via electrostatic brakes accepted to IJRR.
01/29/2024: Paper on mapping language instructions to LTL plans accepted to ICRA.
