Ph.D. in Computer Science and Cognitive Science

I am a Research Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Tufts University. My research focuses on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics.

Research Interests

Understanding the computational nature of social and creative reasoning in humans. My current work focuses on developing Neurosymbolic multi-modal and embodied AI approaches to:

• 💬 Shaping linguistic behavior by reasoning with social, cultural, and normative knowledge
• 💭 Improving team communication by reasoning about beliefs of others using Theory of Mind
• 💡Solving unanticipated planning problems with improvisation and creative reasoning

Technical Approach

Adapting social and cognitive sciences theories to build trustworthy human-aware and interactive systems. Leveraging tools from various AI fields — NLP, Computer Vision, AI Planning, Reinforcement Learning, and Knowledge Representation and Reasoning. Working with collaborators to explore techniques for:

• Training neural transformer models for learning graph-based knowledge representations
• Steering pre-trained foundation models (FMs) with prompt design and learning
• Reasoning with logic programming paradigms like Answer Set Programming (ASP)
• Combining neural networks with symbolic reasoning paradigms

Applications