Papers, Patents, and Projects
Papers, Patents, and Projects
Publications
DeCastero J., Silva A., Gopinath DE., Sumner E., Balch TM., Dees L., Rosman G. Dreaming to Assist: Learning to Align with Human Objectives for Shared Control in High-Speed Racing. The 2024 Conference on Robot Learning (Published at CoRL 2024)
Srivastava M., Iranmanesh R., Cui Y., Gopinath DE., Sumner ES., Silva A., Dees L., Rosman G., Sadigh D., Shared Autonomy for Proximal Teaching. (Published at HRI 2025)
Gopinath DE., Cui X., DeCastero J., Sumner E., Costa J., Yasuda H., Morgon A., Dees L., Chau S., Leonard J., Chen T., Rosman G., Balachandren A., Computational Teaching for Driving via Multi-Task Imitation Learning. (Published at ICRA 2025)
Gideon J., Tamura K., Sumner E., Dees L., Reyes Gomez P., Haq B., Rowell T., Balachandran A., Stent S., Rosman G. A Simulator Dataset to Support the Study of Impaired Driving. (Published to IEEE-ITSC 2025)
Hu X., Dees L., Gopinath DE., Silva A., DeCastro J., Rosman G., Sumner E. Enhancing Trust Repair in Driving: The Role of AI Emotional Expression and Perceived Control. (Published to IEEE-ITSC 2025)
Sumner E., Gopinath DE., Dees L., Reyes Gomez P., Cui X., Silva A., Costa J., Schrum ML., Morgan A., Chen TL., Balachandran A., Rosman G. SimCoachCorpus: A naturalistic dataset with language and trajectories for embodied teaching. (Published in arXiv, Accepted to KDD D&B Track 2026)
Schrum M., Srivatsa S., Dees L., Dixon E., Reyes Gomez P., Gopinath D., Sumner E., Rosman G., Chen T. A Skill Modulates Coaching Language in Embodied Motor Learning. 2026 Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (Accepted to CHI 2026)
Gupta P., Stent S,. Gideon J., Battel K., Dees L., Reyes Gomez P., Applegate-Kenton M., Sumner E., Rosman G. See Something, Say Something: Layered Driver Situational Awareness from Language (Accepted to IEEE IV 2026)
Yu C., Gopinath DE., Silva A., Tambwekar P., Sumner E., Dees L., Rosman G., Leonard JJ., Hsu D., Balachandran A. (2025). Real-Time Coaching of Human Physical Skills with Large Language Models. (in progress).
Featured Projects
My role: Created overtaking scenarios & study stimuli; edited Qualtrics surveys; annotated data; led study recruitment; helped with analysis.
Methods: Human-in-the-loop user studies, behavioral annotation, and statistical analysis.
Impact: Improved dataset quality and ensured experimental validity for alignment evaluations.
Journal in progress - switched from overtaking in a racing context to everyday passing scenarios.
My role: Created overtaking stimuli in Unreal; edited Qualtrics surveys; led study recruitment; led and created multiple study variations; assisted with model tuning; created an analysis repo to work on new types of data.
Methods: Human-in-the-loop user studies, behavioral annotation, and statistical analysis.
My role: Study design contributor; tuned model communication; edited Qualtrics surveys; managed recruitment.
Methods: Simulation studies, model tuning, user studies, mixed-method analysis.
Impact: Shaped teaching cadence and interaction settings that improved participant learning and comfort.
My role: Led data collection and recruitment for coaches & participants; cleaned transcripts; co-developed a taxonomy of coaching behaviors; conducted language analysis; contributed to paper writing.
Methods: Led multiple Naturalistic data collection, transcription cleaning, qualitative coding, and quantitative language analysis.
Impact: Foundational contribution to a benchmark resource for embodied teaching research.
Patents
dos Reis Costa, J.M., Rosman, G., Gopinath, D.E., Sumner, E., Balch, T., DeCastro, J., Silva, A.M. and Dees, L.T., Toyota Motor Corp and Toyota Research Institute Inc, 2025. Shared decision-making with cognitive priors. U.S. Patent Application 18/603,887.