Andreea Bobu
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Boeing Career Development Professor in Aeronautics and Astronautics
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I am interested in the intersection of robotics, mathematical human modeling, and deep learning, with a focus on how robots and humans can efficiently arrive at shared representations of their tasks for more seamless and reliable interaction.
Specialization and Research Interests
I focus on human-centered robotics, algorithmic human-robot interaction, robot learning from human feedback, personalization, and human-aligned representation learning.
Teaching Interests
Algorithmic human-robot interactions, artificial intelligence for aerospace, and robotics: science and systems
Academic Degrees
S.B. Computer Science and Engineering from MIT
Ph.D. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California Berkeley
Positions held at MIT
Boeing Assistant Professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Positions held Outside of MIT
Research Scientist at the Boston Dynamics AI Institute
Awards & Honors
- EECS Rising Star, 2022
- Best Paper; HRI, 2020
- Honorable Mention; T-RO, 2020
- Best Paper Finalist; HRI, 2021
- ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award Nominee
Research
- Aligning Robot Representations with Humans University of California Berkely (2023)
- SIRL: Similarity-based Implicit Representation Learning In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ’23) (2023)
- Quantifying Hypothesis Space Misspecification in Learning From Human–Robot Demonstrations and Physical Corrections IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 835-854 (2020)
- LESS is More: Rethinking Probabilistic Models of Human Behavior In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ’20) (2020)
- Inducing Structure in Reward Learning by Learning Features The International Journal of Robotics Research (2022)