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