In 20 years I want there to be robots that can effectively provide a full range of quality care to the elderly. The US is on the verge of a large retirement of baby boomers and China faces a deeply troubling demographic cliff in 20 years, motivating the need for new methods of quality elder care less dependant upon human labor. I am trying to help in this effort.
I am a PhD student at Penn under Eric Eaton in the Lifelong Machine Learning Lab. Motivated by my goal of developing elder care robots, my research interests lie in the intersection of:
In my undergrad at UMass Amherst I did research under Joydeep Biswas in the Autonomous Mobile Robotics Lab. My research was in:
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