His research interests involve designing, building, and evaluating socially interactive technologies that are physically situated in the open world, particularly embodied virtual agents and robots. He draws inspiration from sociolinguistics, microsociology, conversation analysis, and social psychology to design fine-grained coordinated behaviors that enable embodied agents to engage in more fluid interactions and collaborations with people. He received my PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where his dissertation work centered on researching effective social gaze behaviors for human-robot and human-agent interaction.

His research interests include human-AI interaction, especially planning and collaborative decision-making with humans in the loop, with applications in human-agent teaming and decision support. He received my PhD from Arizona State University where his dissertation work centered on foundations of human-aware planning.