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We are engineers, computer scientists, designers, and computational HRI researchers.

WHO WE ARE

Meet the Team

AIRLab is a multi-disciplinary team of engineers, computer scientists, designers, and computational HRI researchers working on problems at the intersection of human-robot interaction, human-computer interaction, robotics, and artificial intelligence.

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Andrew H. and Ann R. Tisch Assistant Professor

Information Science Department 

Cornell Tech

Director of Air Lab

Department of Emergency Medicine Weill Cornell Medicine

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PhD Student

Information Science Department 

Cornell University

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Research Interests: human-computer interaction, computer-supported cooperative work, and augmented/mixed reality

PhD Student

Computer Science Department 

Cornell University

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Research Interests: safe human-robot interaction, robotics, reinforcement learning, large language models

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Visiting Researcher

Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany

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Research Interests: virtual reality, mental health and well-being, human-computer interaction

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PhD Student

Information Science Department

Cornell Tech

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Research Interests: human-computer interaction, augmented and virtual reality, healthcare robotics

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PhD Student

Information Science Department

Cornell Tech

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Research Interests: human-computer interaction, healthcare robotics, large language models

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Masters Student

Dual M.S. in Computer & Information Science & Applied Information Science 

Cornell Tech

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Research Interests: Augmented & Virtual Reality (XR), Conversational AI, Human-Computer Interaction, Health Tech

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Nana Takada

Masters Student

Information Science Department 

Cornell University

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Research Interests: digital mental health technologies for parent-child interactions

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Masters Student

Information Science Department

Cornell Tech

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Research Interests: computer vision, AR applications, human-computer interaction, robotics

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Masters Student

Information Science Department 

Cornell University

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Research Interests: computer vision, activity recognition, robotics

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Saesha Agarwal

Undergraduate Student

Computer Science Department 

Cornell University

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Research Interests: reinforcement learning, robotics

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Undergraduate Student

Computer Science Department 

Cornell University

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Research Interests: robot learning, ethical AI

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Undergraduate Student

Computer Science Department 

Cornell University

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Research Interests: human-robot interaction, computer vision, vision language models

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Undergraduate Student

Computer Science and Mathematics Department 

Cornell University

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Research Interests: AI, Machine-Learning, Calculus and Linear Algebra, Robotics

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Undergraduate Student

Information Science Department 

Cornell University

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Research Interests: Robotics and embedded systems, Machine learning, hardware accelerators

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Undergraduate Student

Computer Engineering and Mathematics Department 

The City College of New York and Macaulay Honors College

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Research Interests: Machine Learning, Robotics, embedded systems, Control Theory, Discrete Math

High School Student

Trinity High

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Research Interests: Human robot interaction and biomimetics

Undergraduate Student

Computer Science Department 

Cornell University

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Research Interests: reinforcement learning, robotics

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WHO WE ARE

Past Team Members

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Thomas Wiener

Masters Student

Information Science Department 

Cornell Tech

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Research Interests: reinforcement learning, robotics

Undergraduate Student

Computer Science Department

Cornell University

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Research Interests: reinforcement learning

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Nebil Oumer

Masters Student

Computer Engineering Department 

Cornell Tech

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Research Interests: embedded systems and robotics applications

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Masters Student

Information Science Department 

Cornell University

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Research Interests: human-computer interaction, automated vehicles

Undergraduate Student

Computer Science and Engineering Department

Universidad de los Andes

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Research Interests: robot learning, large language models

PhD Student

Information Science Department 

Cornell Tech

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Research Interests: robot learning, human-robot interaction, healthcare robotics

Visiting Intern

Cornell Tech

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Research Interests: mechatronics, CAD, 3D laser printing

Masters Student

Information Science Department 

Cornell University

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Research Interests: human-computer interaction, computer-supported cooperative work, and augmented/mixed reality

Masters Student

Information Science Deparment

Health Tech Program

Cornell University

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Research Interests: human-robot interaction, legible navigation, full-stack roboticist

Undergraduate Student

Computer Science Department

Cornell University

Cornell ELI Scholar

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Research Interests: machine learning, human-robot interaction

Masters Student

Information Science Department

Health Tech Program

Cornell Tech

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Research Interests: human-robot interaction, machine learning with wearable data

Undergraduate Student

Computer Science and Engineering Department

Cornell University

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Research Interests: robot navigation, perception, proxemics

Undergraduate Student

Computer Science Department 

University of Flordia

DREU Scholar

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Research Interests: robot vision, activity recognition

Undergraduate Student

Computer Science Department 

Cornell University

Cornell ELI Scholar

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Research Interests: machine learning, activity recognition

Undergraduate Student

Computer Science Department

University of Colorado

DREU Scholar

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Research Interests: augmented reality for clinical teams

Undergraduate Student

Computer Science Department 

Cornell University

Cornell ELI Scholar

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Research Interests: robot vision, mobile augmented reality

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PRESS

AIRLab in the News

Read about recent news featuring members of the AIRLab team in the media.

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