Graduate Students

Tim Adamson 4th Year PhD Student tim.adamson@yale.edu Website	Tim earned a B.S. in Civil Engineering at the University of Washington with a minor in Computer Science. He began research in the field of HRI in early 2017, and is especially drawn to the areas of Social Robotics, robots in the wild, and robots interacting with groups of people.	view
Emmanuel Adeniran 3rd 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 6th 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 2nd Year PhD Student kate.candon@yale.edu	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 3rd 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, 1st 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
Ellie Mamantov 1st 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 2nd 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 1st 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
Meiying Qin 6th Year PhD Student meiying.qin@yale.edu	Meiying has completed a double major in Psychology and Computer Science as an undergrad at the University of Toronto. She also hold a Bachelor degree in Life Science at Peking University. She is interested in human-robot interaction and animal cognition.	view
Rebecca Ramnauth 3rd 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
Nicole Salomons 6th Year Graduate Student nicole.salomons@yale.edu	Nicole Salomons got her BS degree in Computer Science at The Federal University of Parana in Brazil. She is currently a sixth year PhD student at the Social Robotics Lab. She is interested in artificial intelligence, tutoring systems, and computer vision. Her current work is on creating skill aware robots in collaborative manufacturing settings	view
Nathan Tsoi 3rd 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

Search form

You are here