People

Faculty
Brian Scassellati's picture 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
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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
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Graduate Students
Emmanuel Adeniran's picture 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.

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Jake Brawer's picture Jake Brawer
7th Year PhD Student
jake.brawer@yale.edu
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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.


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Kate Candon's picture Kate Candon
3rd Year PhD Student
kate.candon@yale.edu
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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.


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Nicholas Georgiou's picture 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.


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Debasmita Ghose's picture Debasmita Ghose,
4th Year PhD Student
debasmita.ghose@yale.edu
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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. 

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Fern Limprayoon's picture Fern Limprayoon
1st Year PhD Student
fern.limprayoon@yale.edu
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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.


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Ellie Mamantov's picture 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.


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Kayla Matheus's picture Kayla Matheus
3rd Year PhD Student
kayla.matheus@yale.edu
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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
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Austin Narcomey's picture 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
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Rebecca Ramnauth's picture Rebecca Ramnauth
4th Year PhD Student
rebecca.ramnauth@yale.edu
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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.
 


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Nathan Tsoi's picture Nathan Tsoi
4th Year PhD Student
nathan.tsoi@yale.edu
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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
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Undergraduate Students
Adérónké Adéjàre's picture Adérónké Adéjàre
Saybrook College, Class of 2024
aderonke.adejare@yale.edu
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Jonathan Dallard's picture Jonathan Dallard
Silliman College, Class of 2022
john.dallard@yale.edu
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Kaleb Gezahegn's picture Kaleb Gezahegn
Grace Hopper College, Class of 2023
kaleb.gezahegn@yale.edu
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Rohit Giridharan's picture Rohit Giridharan
Saybrook College, Class of 2022
rohit.giridharan@yale.edu
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Julian Lee's picture Julian Lee
Silliman College, Class of 2025
julian.lee@yale.edu
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Michael Lee
Silliman College, Class of 2024
michael.h.lee@yale.edu
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Michal Lewkowicz's picture Michal Lewkowicz
Benjamin Franklin College, Class of 2024
michal.lewkowicz@yale.edu
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Ariel Melendez's picture Ariel Melendez
Pauli Murray College, Class of 2023
a.melendez@yale.edu
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Caroline Reiner
Pauli Murray College, Class of 2023
caroline.reiner@yale.edu
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Lila Selin's picture Lila Selin
Timothy Dwight College, Class of 2023
lila.selin@yale.edu
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Tom Wallenstein's picture Tom Wallenstein
Silliman College, Class of 2021
tom.wallenstein@yale.edu
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