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- Researching robotic social signal processing, group detection, social norm violation recognition- Built mobile robot photographer to collect examples of human-robot interaction outside the lab- Developing end-to-end model for clustering social groups to improve human-robot interaction- Collaborated with Stanford researchers on social group detection paper. Adapted model for live group detection between human and robotic agents- Led public communication and contributed to early development for robot telepresence project responding to COVID-19 isolation in young children- Mentored 3 undergraduate students on research projects such as modeling mental states, modeling end-to-end group detection, and building an annotation web app with Apache and Flask

- Designed algorithm to rank importance of road agents in autonomous driving scenarios- Analyzed behavior of planning and perception models on Argoverse dataset to understand how different architecture influenced model attention to other agent positions and behavior

- Analyzed historical purchase data to create semantic customer profiles for targeted messaging- Designed and deployed personalized messaging model in Python for ~100 location restaurant chain- Developed and maintained relationships with client stakeholders- Mentored and managed 5 summer interns, covering multiple projects and roles