News

21 Jan 2022. Talk at Meta Research

I presented our recent work in group HRI at the Meta Embodied AI Seminar.

30 Nov 2021. AI Ethics on the Global Stage

Sasha Brown (DeepMind / Yale World Fellows Program), Wendell Wallach (Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics) and I participated in the first event of the Yale Kimball Smith Series.

29 Oct 2021. Talking Robotics

I presented our research in Group Human-Robot Interaction at the Talking Robotics series.

20 Jun 2021. New IMG work at CVPR 2021

This week, Kevin Chen will be presenting our latest work in vision-and-language navigation at CVPR and I gave a keynote presentation at the 2nd JRDB Workshop.

05 May 2021. New 2020 Amazon Research Award!

Our work on human-driven simulations receives support from Amazon.

05 Mar 2021. Our work is nominated for a Best Paper Award at HRI 2021!

Our paper about deploying robots during a pandemic was nominated for a Best Paper Award at HRI 2021, the top conference on Human-Robot Interaction.

16 Jan 2021. Bleep-Bloop-Bleep! Say 'Cheese,' Human

An article about IMG's robot photographer recently appeared in Yale News and was highlighted by the ACM TechNews.

04 Dec 2020. INFORMS en Español

I participated in the INFORMS speaker series, which aims to connect the hispanic community with researchers in the United States.

13 Nov 2020. Our Social Environment for Autonomous Navigation (SEAN) is recognized at HAI 2020

SEAN received the 1st Runner Up - Best Poster Award prize at the conference. Congratulations to all the authors!

04 Nov 2020. New WSJ article describes Yale IMG research

The article describes a recent project about prosocial human behavior in Human-Robot Interaction.

15 Jul 2020. Science Robotics Focus Article

A new article by IMG and the Yale Social Robotics Lab discusses the potential of socially assistive robots during disease outbreaks.