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Shaid Hasan

PhD student, Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia
Email: qmz9mg@virginia.edu
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I build robots that learn from people and adapt to them.

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at the University of Virginia, where I work as a graduate research assistant in the Collaborative Robotics Lab advised by Prof. Tariq Iqbal.

My research lies at the intersection of Human-Robot Interaction and Robot Learning. A core challenge in human-centered robotics is that robots often struggle to remain effective when human input, task goals, environments, and user needs change over time. My work develops multimodal robot learning and interaction methods for human-centered robotic systems that enable robots to learn from people through diverse forms of input, adapt to changing tasks and environments, and personalize their interactions in complex collaborative settings.

Recent News

Oct 2026: Best Poster Awards (Faculty Choice and Audience Choice),
University of Virginia CS Research Symposium, 2026.
Sep 2026: Presented our paper at IROS 2026.
Sep 2026: Our paper was accepted to Nature Electronics! First Nature paper!
July 2026: Our paper was accepted to ICMI 2026. See you in Naples, Italy!
July 2026: Accepted into the ACM THRI Distinguished Reviewer Board.
June 2026: Received Outstanding Reviewer Recognition at ICMI 2026.
June 2026: Two papers accepted to IROS 2026. See you in Pittsburgh!
May 2026: Two papers accepted to RO-MAN 2026. See you in Kitakyushu, Japan!
Mar 2026: Presented our paper at the Multi-Agentic Systems in HRI Workshop at HRI 2026.
Jan 2026: Received Outstanding Reviewer Recognition at CHI 2026.
Dec 2025: Passed my Ph.D. qualifying exam.
Nov 2025: Our paper was accepted to ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI).
Nov 2024: Presented our paper at ICMI 2024 in San José, Costa Rica.
July 2024: Our paper was accepted to ICMI 2024.
Jan 2023: Joined the Collaborative Robotics Lab at UVA as a Graduate Research Assistant,
advised by Prof. Tariq Iqbal.