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Career

· Research Intern, Google DeepMind2025–2025
· Research Intern, Robust.AI2024–2024
· PhD Student, Carnegie Mellon University2022–
· MS, University of Southern California2020–2022
· BS in Computer Science, BA in Cognitive Science, BA in Linguistics, University of Southern California2017–2022
· Researcher, USC Robotics and Autonomous Systems Center - Interaction Lab2017–2022

Publications (18)

SOTOPIA: Interactive Evaluation for Social Intelligence in Language Agents
International Conference on Learning Representations · 2023
233
cited
Introducing Representations of Facial Affect in Automated Multimodal Deception Detection
International Conference on Multimodal Interaction · 2020
42
cited
Modeling User Empathy Elicited by a Robot Storyteller
Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction · 2021
30
cited
HEMM: Holistic Evaluation of Multimodal Foundation Models
Neural Information Processing Systems · 2024
27
cited
Advancing Social Intelligence in AI Agents: Technical Challenges and Open Questions
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · 2024
23
cited
Unsupervised Audio-Visual Subspace Alignment for High-Stakes Deception Detection
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing · 2021
18
cited
Social Genome: Grounded Social Reasoning Abilities of Multimodal Models
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · 2025
15
cited
Student misconceptions of dynamic programming: a replication study
Computer Science Education · 2022
10
cited
Affect-Aware Deep Belief Network Representations for Multimodal Unsupervised Deception Detection
IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face & Gesture Recognition · 2021
8
cited
Difference-Masking: Choosing What to Mask in Continued Pretraining
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · 2023
8
cited
Attentiveness of Children with Diverse Needs to a Socially Assistive Robot in the Home
2018
5
cited
Expanding the Role of Affective Phenomena in Multimodal Interaction Research
International Conference on Multimodal Interaction · 2023
4
cited
Affect-Aware Machine Learning Models for Deception Detection
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2021
3
cited
Month-Long, In-Home Socially Assistive Robot for Children with Diverse Needs
International Symposium on Experimental Robotics · 2018
3
cited
Towards Intercultural Affect Recognition: Audio-Visual Affect Recognition in the Wild Across Six Cultures
IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face & Gesture Recognition · 2022
2
cited
OpenFace 3.0: A Lightweight Multitask System for Comprehensive Facial Behavior Analysis
IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face & Gesture Recognition · 2025
1
cited
Social Caption: Evaluating Social Understanding in Multimodal Models
2026
Speech Representations and Phoneme Classification for Preserving the Endangered Language of Ladin
arXiv.org · 2021
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