Currently, I’m a graduate student at the Autonomous Learning Laboratory in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, working under the supervision of Andrew Barto.  My interests include robot learning from demonstration, reinforcement learning, and Bayesian nonparametrics. In 2005, I completed my undergraduate studies in computer science and cognitive science at Carnegie Mellon University and spent several years working in the robotics industry before beginning my graduate studies.

News

• New video available of autonomous IKEA furniture assembly learned via demonstration.
• Our paper Incremental Semantically Grounded Learning from Demonstration has been accepted at RSS 2013.
• New BP-AR-HMM code for automatic segmentation of demonstrations now available on my code page.
• I’m co-organizing an RSS 2013 workshop on human-robot collaboration with James Boerkoel, Anca Dragan, and Sachin Chitta. Call for papers here.
• New ROS packages are available on my code page for DMP generation, supervised classification, and AR tag tracking.