People
Faculty PI
Elaine Schaertl Short
Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor
Computer Science
Mechanical Engineering (secondary appointment)
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Researchers
Reuben Aronson
Postdoctoral Researcher
Computer Science
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Grad Students
James Staley
PhD Student
Computer Science
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James's research is about determining a person’s focus in a multi-agent environment, and doing this more easily through coordinated agent behavior. He is also interested in hierarchical, model-free reinforcement learning and option discovery.
Isaac Sheidlower
PhD Student
Computer Science
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Isaac's current research concerns Interactive Reinforcement Learning with binary feedback in complicated, continuous state and action space environments. He is also interested in how a learning agent can exploit multiple human teachers each of whom may have their own preferences for how to complete a certain task.
Jindan Huang
PhD Student
Computer Science
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Jindan's current research aims to optimize Interactive Reinforcement Learning to be more adaptive for different users by incorporating participatory design methodologies. She is also interested in designing user-friendly interactive behaviors for robots in education and healthcare settings.
Hang Yu
PhD Student
Computer Science
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Hang's current research is to effectively utilize human feedback to improve the efficiency of Interactive Reinforcement Learning by using both local and global feedback and minimizing dynamics in human feedback. He is also interested in heuristic algorithms, collaborative learning, and deep learning.
Kat Allen
PhD Student
Mechanical Engineering/HRI
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Kat’s research interests include multi-party human-robot interactions for complex physical tasks, human-robot cooperation and teaming, adaptive robotics, and robotics for space systems.
Undergradute Students
Tom Wiesenberg
Tufts Undergraduate
Mechanical Engineering
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Isabella Bianchi
Tufts Undergraduate
Mechanical Engineering
Computer Science
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Student Collaborators & Friends of AABL
Taylor Kessler Faulkner
PhD Student
Advisor: Andrea Thomaz
SIM Lab
Department of Computer Science
UT Austin
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Tyler Frasca
PhD Student
Advisor: Matthias Scheutz
HRI Lab
Department of Computer Science
Tufts University
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Andre Cleaver
PhD Student
Advisor: Jivko Sinapov
Department of Mechanical Engineering
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Alumni
Allison Moore
Tufts Undergraduate
Mechanical Engineering
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Robots
Beep
Custom Research Robot
Diligent Robotics
6 DOF arm
Mobile base
Expressive face
Boop
Custom Research Robot
Diligent Robotics
6DOF arm
Mobile base
Expressive face
SPRITE
Open-Source Open-Hardware Robot
6 DOF Body
Animated Face
Open Hardware
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