Biography

I am an incoming Assistant Professor at the University of Sydney in the Department of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering. My research explores human-robot interaction and collaboration through robot learning and optimal control. I focus on developing useful algorithmic interfaces for humans to intuitively interact with and control complex, dynamic robotic systems. Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher in the Learning Algorithms and Systems (LASA) lab at EPFL, where I worked on multimodal sensory learning for safe manipulation and adaptive safety controllers for human-robot collaboration. I obtained my Ph.D. at Northwestern University, where my research focused on algorithms for intuitive human-robot collaboration and efficient robot learning. I led Northwestern’s team for the DARPA OFFSET Urban Swarm Challenge, developing autonomous swarm algorithms for shared human-swarm collaboration under dynamic, time-sensitive constraints. Prior to joining the University of Sydney, I served as an Associate Research Scientist and Lecturer at Yale University in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.