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
02/09/2026: Excited to be visiting the Computational Robotics Lab at ETH this semester!02/03/2026: Late-breaking report on legible navigation accepted to HRI!
01/31/2026: New social navigation dataset paper accepted to ICRA!
01/26/2026: Paper on nonmonotone nonprehensile rearrangement planning accepted to RA-L!
12/23/2025: Paper connecting human motion prediction and crowd navigation accepted to HRI!
05/19/2025: Invited talk at the ICRA workshop on long-term human motion prediction.
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.
