In the Fall of 2023, I will be joining the University of Michigan as an Assistant Professor in the Robotics Department! Please apply to the Michigan Robotics PhD program if you are interested in working with me.
I am a Postdoc in the Paul Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington where I work with Prof. Siddhartha Srinivasa in the Personal Robotics Lab.
Prior to that, I received my Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from Cornell University, and a Diploma from the National Technical University of Athens.
My interests lie at the intersection of robotics, human-robot interaction, and artificial intelligence. My goal is to build robots that are accepted as valuable partners in critical domains like manufacturing sites, warehouses, and hospitals. To this end, I develop mathematical models, algorithms, and systems to give robots the mobility, manipulation, and interaction capabilities to seamlessly integrate in the physical and social environment.
Here is my CV.
News
11/08/2022: New RAL
work on crowd navigation via topological invariance!
10/10/2022: I'm helping organize
HRI as a PC member.
10/03/2022: New
preprint on multirobot pushing. [
video]
10/02/2022:
Interview with the
HLFF Spotlight Series Podcast.
06/30/2022:
Paper on pose estimation for manipulation accepted to
IROS!
05/27/2022: Giving a tutorial on navigation in social contexts at
ICRA!
04/19/2022: Selected to participate in the
Heidelberg Laureate Forum!
04/04/2022:
Paper on intersection crossing via braids accepted to
WAFR!
01/31/2022:
Paper on topological analysis of traffic accepted to
ICRA!
01/05/2022: I'll be helping organize
CoRL this year.
11/23/2021:
Paper accepted to
HRI!
11/23/2021: Organizing
HRI workshop on curiosity-driven approaches.
09/30/2021:
Paper accepted to
Transations on HRI!
09/13/2021: 2 papers [
1,
2] accepted to
CoRL 2021!
09/01/2021:
Paper accepted to IJRR!
08/24/2021: Invited talks at
kod*lab and
Cornell Robotics Seminar.
06/24/2021:
RSS paper on planning with models of human help.
07/15/2021: Organized workshops at
RSS, and
ICRA 2021 [
1,
2,
3].
05/07/2021: Invited talks at
Talking Robotics,
TU Berlin,
AAAI Symposium.
03/10/2021:
Preprint of our social navigation survey article available.
