Recent Awards


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Awarded 2020 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

The NSF-GRFP is a prestigious grant awarded to approximately < 10% of student applicants pursuing research-based graduate degrees.

$46,000 x 3 yrs · Discovering the neural mechanisms of dyadic social interaction using human-robot interaction


Yale SRL article Yale CS article NSF-GRFP Awardee List NSF-GRFP Award Info
Awarded 2020 NASEM Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship

The Ford Fellowship is a competitive grant awarded to < 5% of Ph.D. or Sc.D. students applicants by the National Academics of Science, Engineering, and Medicine.

$27,000 x 3 yrs · Discovering the neural mechanisms of dyadic social interaction using human-robot interaction


FFPF Award Info

Recent Publications


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Social Robotics for Adults with Autism

Rebecca Ramnauth, Emmanuel Adéníran, Timothy Adamson, Michal A. Lewkowicz, Rohit Giridharan, Caroline Reiner, and Brian Scassellati. 2022. “A Social Robot for Improving Interruptions Tolerance and Employability in Adults with ASD.” In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '22). Association for Computing Machinery, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.

Deploying Robots During COVID-19

Nathan Tsoi, Joe Connolly, Emmanuel Adéníran, Amanda Hansen, Kaitlynn Taylor Pineda, Timothy Adamson, Sydney Thompson, Rebecca Ramnauth, Marynel Vázquez, and Brian Scassellati. 2021. “Challenges Deploying Robots During a Pandemic: An Effort to Fight Social Isolation Among Children.” In Proceedings of the 2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 234–242.

Recent Experience

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  • August 2019 - current

    Yale University

    Ph.D. in Computer Science · Yale Social Robotics Lab · Advisor: Brian Scassellati

  • August 2019 - May 2020

    Yale University

    M.Sc. in Computer Science · Yale Social Robotics Lab · Brain Function Lab
    Project: Discovering the Neural Mechanisms of Dyadic Social Communication using Human-Robot Interaction · Advisors: Brian Scassellati and Joy Hirsch

  • August 2019 - May 2020

    Yale University

    M.Phil. in Computer Science · Yale Social Robotics Lab · Interactive Machines Group
    Project: Cognitive Appraisal Interventions for Buffering the Emotional Effects of Isolation · Advisors: Brian Scassellati and Marynel Vazquez