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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 & Emergency Medicine 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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Postdoctoral Researcher

Cornell Tech

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Research Interests: robotics, embodied AI, mechanical engineering

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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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Master's Student 

Information Science Department

Cornell Tech

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Research Interests: Human-centered AI, Generative Models, LLMs, Reinforcement Learning

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PhD Student

Computer Science Department 

Cornell University

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Sunishka Sil

Master's Student 

Information Science Department

Cornell Tech

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Research Interests: human-computer Interaction, robotics, augmented & virtual Reality, interface design

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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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Yingxuan (Aimee) Li

Masters Student

Information Science Department

Cornell Tech

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Research Interests: human-computer interaction, wellbeing

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Weicong (Wendy) Hong

Masters Student

Information Science Department

Cornell Tech

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Research Interests: human-computer interaction, conversational AI, computer-supported cooperative work

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Sirui Wang

Undergraduate Student

Computer Science Department 

Cornell University

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Research Interests: human-computer interaction, augmented/virtual reality

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Juliette Dashe

Undergraduate Student 

Statistics Department

Colorado State University

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Research Interests: human-computer Interaction, augmented and virtual reality, human-centered AI  

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WHO WE ARE

AIRLab Alumni

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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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Master's Student 

Information Science

Cornell Tech

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Research Interests: machine learning, reinforcement learning, robotics, augmented reality

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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

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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Master's Student

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Cornell Tech

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Research Interests: Quantitative modeling, healthcare and assistive robotics, HRI, applied AI

Purnjay Muruur

Master of Engineering in Computer Science

Cornell University

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Research Interests: optimizing machine learning infrastructure, large language models, reinforcement learning

Masters Student

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Research Interests: applied AI, quantum Computing, nanotechnology, large language models

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Master's Student 

Information Science

Cornell Tech

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Research Interests: human-centered AI, robotics, generative models, reinforcement learning

Master's Student 

Computer Science

Cornell Tech

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Research Interests: applied machine learning, reinforcement learning, network science, augmented and virtual Reality

Master's Student 

Computer Science

Cornell Tech

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Research Interests: multi-agent-supported conversational tools

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Thomas Wiener

Masters Student

Information Science Department 

Cornell Tech

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S&P Global

Undergraduate Student

Computer Science Department

Cornell University

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Co-Founder @ Nitrode

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Nebil Oumer

Masters Student

Computer Engineering Department 

Cornell Tech

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ASSA ABLOY

Undergraduate Student

Computer Science Department 

University of Flordia

DREU Scholar

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Meta Reality Labs

Masters Student

Information Science Deparment

Health Tech Program

Cornell University

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Bloomberg

Undergraduate Student

Computer Science Department

Colorado State University

DREU Scholar

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Ph.D. Program @ University of Colorado-Boulder

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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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