Faculty PI
ANDREA L. THOMAZ
Assistant Professor
School of Intearctive Computing
Graduate Students
MAYA CAKMAK
Robotics Ph.D. Program
Research Interests: Social Learning, Learning from Demonstration, Interactive Machine Learning, Human-Robot Interaction
CRYSTAL CHAO
Robotics Ph.D. Program
Research Interests: Social Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Human-Robot Interfaces
NICK DEPALMA
CS Masters Program
Research Interests: Socially Guided Machine Learning, Reasoning, Robot Design, Task Learning
MICHAEL GIELNIAK
ECE Ph.D. Program
Research Interests: Believable motion, motor control, and animation principles applied to robots
CHIEN-MING HUANG
CS Masters Program
Research Interests: Human-Robot Interaction, Social Learning, Sociable Robots, Biologically-Inspired Computing
SIM Alums
JIN JOO LEE
ECE Masters Program
What's next: PhD candidate at MIT
Collaborators
ROSA ARRIAGA
Senior Research Scientist
School of Interactive Computing
Director of Pediatric Research, Health Systems Institute
Research Interests: Developmental Psychology, Cognition, Human-Computer Interaction, Technology for Health Care
GIL WEINBERG
Associate Professor, Music Department
Director of Music Technology
Research Interests: Music Technology, Musical Networks, Robotic Musicianship, Sonification, and Music Education
Recruiting
Prospective Graduate Research Assistants:
All GRA positions are currently filled. More positions may become available within the next year. The best way to start working with the SIM lab and to eventually become a GRA is to take Prof. Thomaz's graduate course in HRI, or to work with her on an 8903 indepenedent study.
Prospective Undergraduate Research Assistants:
We are always looking for hardworking undergraduates interested in doing a UROC project in our group. Please contact Dr. Thomaz by email if you are looking for research experience through the UROC program.