I am currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts Lowell (UML). My research interests focus on aspects of Human-Robot Interaction intersecting with accessibility; working on service robots that can help people with mobility limitations or target populations like older adults by collaborating to complete tasks at home.

I obtained my PhD from Purdue University in 2018, working in the Intelligent Systems and Assistive Technologies (ISAT) Lab in the School of Industrial Engineering, under the supervision of Dr. Juan P. Wachs. My dissertation topic was about One-Shot Gesture Recognition. After that I did a postdoc working with Dr. Maya Cakmak in the Human Centered Robotics Lab (HCR).