Faculty
Principal Investigator • KU
Research Interests: Human-Robot Social Connections, Robots as Social Agents, Robots in Groups and Teams
Postdocs & Graduate Students
Postdoctoral Researcher • UChicago
2024 – Present
Research Interests: Child-Robot Interaction, Social Development, and Robot Trust
PhD Student • UChicago
2021 – Present
Research Interests: Human-Centered Robotics, Consumer AI Systems, Multimodal Robot Interaction
PhD Student • UChicago
2022 – Present
Research Interests: Human-Robot Interaction, Robots in Education
PhD Student • UChicago
2023 – Present
Research Interests: Longitudinal HRI Design, Multi-User Adaptive Robots, Scale Development
PhD Student • UChicago
2025 – Present
Research Interests: Human-Robot Interaction, Interaction-Shaping Robotics
Undergraduate & Masters Students
Jingyu Chen
MS in Computer Science
UChicago Class of 2026
Pooja Vegesna
Computer Science & Mathematics
UChicago Class of 2026
Justin Zhang
Computer Science & Mathematics
UChicago Class of 2026
Hewitt Watkins
Computer Science
UChicago Class of 2027
Natalia Kochut
Computational and Applied Mathematics
UChicago Class of 2028
Uma Malani
Computer Science & Computational and Applied Mathematics
UChicago Class of 2029
Sofia Wang
Cognitive Science & Mathematics
UChicago Class of 2029