I am a Ph.D. student in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. My thesis work focuses on the use of rhythm in human-robot social interaction.

I'm a member of HackPittsburgh (our local DIY/hackerspace), Rossum's (a robotic art group), Pittsburgh Kids & Creativity, and Art && Code.

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My company is called BeatBots. This is our robot Keepon. We create cute, rhythmic robots for research, therapy, and entertainment.

I previously worked in the Social Robotics Lab at Yale University, where I received a B.A. in Computer Science & Psychology in 2002 and a M.S. in Computer Science in 2003 (advised by Brian Scassellati and collaborating with autism researchers at the Yale Child Study Center).

I spent the summer of 2004 near Kyoto, Japan, in the Department of Humanoid Robotics and Computational Neuroscience at ATR (supervised by Gordon Cheng and sponsored by NSF & JSPS).

Since the summer of 2006, I have been traveling to Japan to collaborate with Hideki Kozima (formerly at NICT in Kyoto, now at Miyagi University in Sendai).

I spent the winter of 2008 in Daejeon, South Korea, in the PES Design Lab at KAIST (generously hosted by Myung-Suk Kim).

I spent two weeks in August/September 2008 in Paris, France, working in Jacqueline Nadel's lab in the CNRS Centre Emotion at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital.