<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><br><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><b>From:</b> Lidia Stokman <<a href="mailto:lstokman@Princeton.EDU">lstokman@Princeton.EDU</a>><br><b>Date:</b> February 22, 2018 at 8:27:47 AM EST<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:ee-seminar@Princeton.EDU">ee-seminar@Princeton.EDU</a><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>TODAY 2/22 at 4:30pm in B205 E-Quad: EE Seminar Series - Stefanos Nikolaidis (University of Washington)</b><br><b>Reply-To:</b> Lidia Stokman <<a href="mailto:lstokman@Princeton.EDU">lstokman@Princeton.EDU</a>><br><br></div></blockquote><div><span></span></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<p class="MsoHeader"><b><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">EE SEMINAR SERIES</span></b><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Speaker</span></i><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">: Stefanos Nikolaidis, University of Washington<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Title</span></i><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">: Mathematical Models of Adaptation in Human-Robot Collaboration<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Day</span></i><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">: Thursday, February 22, 2018<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Time</span></i><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">: 4:30 pm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Room</span></i><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">: B205 Engineering Quadrangle<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Host</span></i><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">: Prof. Niraj Jha<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Abstract:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">The goal of my research is to improve human-robot collaboration by integrating mathematical models of human behavior into robot decision making. I develop game-theoretic algorithms and probabilistic
planning techniques that reason over the uncertainty in the human internal state and its dynamics, enabling autonomous systems to act optimally in a variety of real-world collaborative settings.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">While much work in human-robot interaction has focused on leader-assistant teamwork models, the recent advancement of robotic systems that have access to vast amounts of information suggests the
need for robots that take into account the quality of the human decision making and actively guide people towards better ways of doing their task. In this talk, I propose an equal partners model, where human and robot engage in a dance of inference and action,
and I focus on one particular instance of this dance: the robot adapts its own actions via estimating the probability of the human adapting to the robot. I start with a bounded memory model of human adaptation parameterized by the human adaptability - the
probability of the human switching towards a strategy newly demonstrated by the robot. I then propose data-driven models that capture subtler forms of adaptation, where the human teammate updates their expectations of the robot’s capabilities through interaction.
Integrating these models into robot decision making allows for human-robot mutual adaptation, where coordination strategies, informative actions and trustworthy behavior are not explicitly modeled, but naturally emerge out of optimization processes. Human
subjects experiments in a variety of collaboration and shared autonomy settings show that mutual adaptation significantly improves human-robot team performance, compared to one-way robot adaptation to the human.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Bio:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Stefanos Nikolaidis completed his PhD at Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute in December 2017 and he is currently a research associate at the University of Washington, Computer Science & Engineering.
His research lies at the intersection of human-robot interaction, algorithmic game-theory and planning under uncertainty. Stefanos develops decision making algorithms that leverage mathematical models of human behavior to support deployed robotic systems in
real-world collaborative settings. He has a MS from MIT, a MEng from the University of Tokyo and a BS from the National Technical University of Athens. He has additionally worked as a research specialist at MIT and as a researcher at Square Enix in Tokyo.
He has received a Best Enabling Technologies Paper Award from the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, has an upcoming best paper nomination from the same conference and was a best paper award finalist in the International Symposium
on Robotics.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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