Christabel Wayllace

Christabel Wayllace is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at New Mexico State University. Before that, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Alberta, where she worked under the guidance of Matthew Taylor at  The Intelligent Robot Learning Laboratory. She completed her Ph.D. at Washington University in St. Louis in the Computer Science and Engineering Department under the mentorship of William Yeoh. She obtained an M.S degree in Computer Science from New Mexico State University and a B.S. in Electronics Engineering from Universidad Mayor de San Andres.

The objective of her research lies in studying the influence of human-agent-environment interaction and understanding how this interaction can benefit both humans and AI agents.

During her Ph.D. she focused on Stochastic Goal Recognition Design (S-GRD) Problems, where we study the environment’s influence on the agent’s behavior and use it to facilitate goal recognition.

Her current interest is to use intelligent tutor systems supported by reinforcement learning and goal recognition to optimize agents’ intervention or environment modification to help people thrive in different settings.