Social Robotics Lab

People

Faculty
	Brian Scassellati, Ph.D. Professor of Computer Science & Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science 51 Prospect St, New Haven, CT 06511-8937 brian.scassellati@yale.edu Phone: 203-432-1219 Website	Brian Scassellati is a Professor of Computer Science, Cognitive Science, and Mechanical Engineering at Yale University and Director of the NSF Expedition on Socially Assistive Robotics. His research focuses on building embodied computational models of human social behavior, especially the developmental progression of early social skills. Using computational modeling and socially view

Graduate Students
	Emmanuel Adeniran 4th Year PhD Student emmanuel.adeniran@yale.edu	Emmanuel is a PhD student interested in theory of mind and the effects of robot embodiment on people. He enjoys listening to interesting podcasts and working out in the gym and with occasional runs down scenic routes. view
	Jake Brawer 7th Year PhD Student jake.brawer@yale.edu Website	Jake received his BA in Cognitive Science with a minor in Computer Science from Vassar College. He is interested in bio-inspired design approaches to robot architectures and morphologies. He is particularly interested in designing systems that can both learn, and reason about their learning in a manner that is transparently communicable and intuitive to human users. view
	Kate Candon 3rd Year PhD Student kate.candon@yale.edu Website	Kate earned a B.S. in Mathematics with Computer Science from MIT. She is interested in artificial intelligence, machine learning, human-robot interaction, and socially assistive robots. She is particularly interested in health care and elder care settings. view
	Nicholas Georgiou 4th Year PhD Student nicholas.georgiou@yale.edu	Nick earned a double major in Computer Science and Computer Engineering, along with a minor in Business, from the University of Virginia. He is interested in artificial intelligence, socially assistive robotics, and human-robot interaction. view
	Debasmita Ghose, 4th Year PhD Student debasmita.ghose@yale.edu Website	Debasmita earned a BS in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Manipal University, India and an MS in Computer Science from UMass Amherst. Her areas of interest include robotic manipulation, machine learning, computer vision, and embedded system development. She is keen on exploring Human-Robot Interaction in industrial settings. view
	Fern Limprayoon 1st Year PhD Student fern.limprayoon@yale.edu Website	Fern is a Computer Science PhD student interested in human-robot interaction. Her current research focuses on using robots to understand and promote prosocial dynamics. She is excited about creating and using technology to help people improve their daily lives. view
	Ellie Mamantov 2nd Year PhD Student ellie.mamantov@yale.edu	Ellie earned a B.A. in Computer Science and Psychology from Carleton College. She is interested in socially assistive robotics and artificial intelligence. She is particularly excited about the intersection of human-robot interaction and mental health and wellness. view
	Kayla Matheus 3rd Year PhD Student kayla.matheus@yale.edu Website	Kayla received her undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering and Art from Yale University in 2011. After working for multiple years in the design thinking and technology startup spaces, she discovered her passion for HRI while founding the behavior change startup, MOTI. Now, she is excited to dive deep into how socially assistive robots can be best designed across the hardware and view
	Austin Narcomey 2nd Year PhD Student austin.narcomey@yale.edu	Austin earned a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford, and focused on artificial intelligence. He is currently a first year PhD student, and he previously conducted research under the advising of Fei-Fei Li of the Vision Lab and Michael Bernstein of the HCI Group and their joint PhD student Ranjay Krishna. Austin is interested in applying methods in deep learning, computer view
	Rebecca Ramnauth 4th Year PhD Student rebecca.ramnauth@yale.edu Website	Rebecca received her MS and BS degrees in Computer Science at Long Island University. She is currently a Ph.D. student at the Social Robotics Lab interested in computational creativity for children with learning disabilities. view
	Nathan Tsoi 4th Year PhD Student nathan.tsoi@yale.edu Website	Nathan is a computer scientist working on research in machine learning, computer vision and robotics. Previously, Nathan has conducted research at Stanford University in the Stanford Vision and Learning Lab under Silvio Savarese and have worked on machine learning and data engineering at Sequoia. For fun, Nathan enjoys designing view

Undergraduate Students
	Adérónké Adéjàre Saybrook College, Class of 2024 aderonke.adejare@yale.edu	view
	Jonathan Dallard Silliman College, Class of 2022 john.dallard@yale.edu	view
	Kaleb Gezahegn Grace Hopper College, Class of 2023 kaleb.gezahegn@yale.edu	view
	Rohit Giridharan Saybrook College, Class of 2022 rohit.giridharan@yale.edu	view
	Julian Lee Silliman College, Class of 2025 julian.lee@yale.edu	view
	Michael Lee Silliman College, Class of 2024 michael.h.lee@yale.edu	view
	Michal Lewkowicz Benjamin Franklin College, Class of 2024 michal.lewkowicz@yale.edu	view
	Ariel Melendez Pauli Murray College, Class of 2023 a.melendez@yale.edu	view
	Caroline Reiner Pauli Murray College, Class of 2023 caroline.reiner@yale.edu	view
	Lila Selin Timothy Dwight College, Class of 2023 lila.selin@yale.edu	view
	Tom Wallenstein Silliman College, Class of 2021 tom.wallenstein@yale.edu	view