News
October 2025: I have been appointed as an Affiliate Member at Mila!
August 2025: I gave a talk at the Honda Research Institute Europe, titled "Long-Term Real-World Personalization for Autonomous Robots".
May 2025: I gave a talk at Mila, titled "Interactive Continual Learning for Long-term Autonomy". Check it out here.
May 2025: Honored to receive the Petro-Canada Young Innovator Award at Concordia!
March 2025: Our preliminary work on task-relevant active learning was presented at the LEAP-HRI (5th edition) workshop!
March 2025: I co-organized the LEAP-HRI (5th edition) workshop at HRI 2025 with Bahar Irfan, Nikhil Churamani, Michelle Zhao, and Siliva Rossi.
Feb 2025: Our paper on human perceptions of continual learning robots is published in the International Journal of Social Robotics!
Jan 2025: Our paper on few-shot segmentation with bounding box annotations has been accepted at ICRA 2025!
Sept 2024: I have been appointed as an Adjunct Professor in SYDE at the University of Waterloo!
August 2024: I have joined CIISE in the Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science at Concordia University!
March 2024: Our paper on a human-centered view of continual learning has been accepted at ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI)!
Jan 2024: Our work on interactive continual learning for long-term personalization was accepted to ICRA 2024!
June 2023: Our paper on CBCL-PR was accepted to IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems!
June 2023: Three papers were accepted to IEEE ROMAN, 2023!
May 2023: New paper on continual learning through HRI: a long-term user study to understand human perceptions of a continual learning robot in repeated interactions.
May 2023: Our paper "Active Class Selection for Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning" was accepted to CoLLAs 2023!
May 2023: Invited to talk about my current and past research on human-robot interaction on the TrainCheck podcast.
April 2023: Selected for the DAAD AInet Postdoc Fellowship.
April 2023: Two papers were accepted at the CLVision workshop at CVPR 2023.
Feb 2023: Gave an invited talk at ContinualAI Seminars titled, Few-Shot Continual Active Learning by a Robot.
Feb 2023: Organizing a special session at IEEE ROMAN 2023 titled, Cognitive Architectures for Personalized Assistive Robots.
Jan 2023: Gave an invited talk at Penn State, ME Systems, Controls, and Robotics Seminars titled, Long-term Real-World Autonomy for Assistive Robots.
Dec 2022: Gave an invited talk at Waterloo.AI titled, Long-term Real-World Autonomy for Assistive Robots
Oct 2022: Gave an invited talk at Ontario Tech Computer Science Seminars titled, Few-Shot Continual Learning for Assistive Robots.
Oct 2022: Received the NeurIPS 2022 Scholar Award!
Oct 2022: Completed a course, "Indigenous Awareness Training" offered by First Nations University of Canada and RBC.
Sep 2022: Our paper "Few-Shot Continual Active Learning by a Robot" was accepted to NeurIPS 2022!