Research

My primary research interest is in planning and execution systems for flexible, coordinated, and cooperative multi-robot and robot-human teams, with an emphasis on execution-time conflict prediction and adaptation. My other interests include the integration of humans into robotic teams via sliding autonomy, inter-robot coordination in both non-contact and cooperative manipulation scenarios, graduated and robust failure recovery, human-robot interaction, and social robotics. My thesis work is on Proactive Replanning for Multi-Robot Teams, as part of the Trestle project. My CV is available here.

I am currently a 7th year PhD student at the Robotics Institute, where my advisor is Reid Simmons. I'm primarily involved in the Trestle and IDSR projects, as well as assisting with a number of others, including the Roboceptionist and Grace. See the Projects page for more details.

I'm affiliated with the Reliable Autonomous Systems Lab and, to a lesser extent, the Field Robotics Center.

I received a B.S. in Computer Science and Human-Computer Interaction, with a minor in Robotics, from Carnegie Mellon in 2001. I entered the Robotics Institute's PhD program the following fall, where I earned my M.S. in Robotics in 2004. We are currently in the process of scheduling my Ph.D. defense for mid-December 2008.