About Me

I am a President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD). At UMD, I work within the RAAS Lab.

My research interest bridges robot (sensor) perception, planning, decision-making, navigation, and uncertainty. It also draws inspiration from quality management, aviation, biology, and psychology.

My long-term goal is to build teams of robotic systems (agents) that can reason about their perceptual capabilities and plan how to strengthen or weaken such capabilities to accomplish their tasks. With such reasoning abilities, these robots will learn how to and reason why they adapt their behavior when their surroundings or the context of their mission changes. For example, consider how you would adapt how you play hide-and-seek when others do have not the same perceptual capabilities.

Presently, I explore how perceptual factors and their sources impact downstream robotic tasks such as human-robot interaction, navigation, planning, and scene understanding. For example, consider how sunglare in the early morning affects your ability to drive safely. Now, think how that would affect autonomous robots navigating on roads, sidewalks, or in the air.