Curriculum Vitae Dr. Ross Alan Mead 3710 McClintock Avenue Ronald Tutor Hall (RTH), Room 423 Los Angeles, CA 90089-0781 http://robotics.usc.edu/~rossmead E-mail: [email protected] Office: +1 (213) 740-6245 Mobile: +1 (618) 696-2600
EDUCATION Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science, Graduated December 2015 University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, CA Master of Science in Computer Science, Graduated May 2015 University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, CA Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Summa Cum Laude, Graduated December 2007 Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE), Edwardsville, IL
EXPERIENCE
Semio, 01/2016–present Founder and CEO, 01/2016–present Los Angeles-based robotics software startup making robots easy to use Developing an operating environment based on conversational user interfaces Technologies to create, deploy, access, and use language-based robot applications
University of Southern California (USC), 08/2008–12/2015 Graduate Research Assistant, 05/2013–12/2015 Modeling social behaviors for human-robot interaction, 05/2013–12/2015 Body Engineering Los Angeles (NSF GK-12) Fellow, 05/2012–05/2013 Using sociable robotics to promote STEM in K-12 education, 05/2012–12/2015 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, 05/2009–05/2012 Proxemics: social spacing in situated human-robot interaction, 01/2010–12/2015 Oculesics: eye gaze in situated human-robot interaction, 05/2009–12/2015 Graduate Research Assistant, 08/2008–04/2009 Kinesics: body language in situated human-robot interaction, 01/2009–12/2015 Deixis: spatial referencing in situated human-robot interaction, 08/2008–12/2015 STEM Outreach Coordinator, 08/2008–12/2015 Using robotics to promote STEM in K-12 education, 08/2004–12/2015 Greater Los Angeles Botball regional organizer and instructor, 08/2008–12/2015 Global Conference on Educational Robotics general organizer, 08/2013–08/2014
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Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE), 08/2003–08/2008 Research Assistant, 05/2005–08/2008 Algorithms for control of large formations of robots, 05/2005–12/2015 Impromptu teams of heterogeneous mobile robots, 08/2006–12/2015 Autonomous golf cart platform for human-robot interaction, 05/2007–08/2009 Intelligent walking robots for K-12 and higher education, 08/2006–08/2008 Using robotics to promote girls' STEM self-efficacy in STEM, 01/2005–08/2005 Teaching Assistant, 05/2005–08/2008 Mobile Robotics: Integrated Systems Design, 01/2005–12/2008 Human-Computer Interaction, 01/2006–05/2006 Engineering Problem Solving, 01/2005–05/2007 STEM Outreach Coordinator, 08/2004–12/2006 Greater St. Louis Botball regional organizer and instructor, 08/2007–12/2015 Using robotics to promote STEM in K-12 education, 08/2004–08/2008 Odyssey Science camp counselor, 07/2007–08/2007 RoboSoccer game designer and tournament coordinator, 08/2006–12/2006 Firebot Challenge game designer and tournament coordinator, 08/2005–12/2005 RoboCraft game designer and tournament coordinator, 08/2004–12/2004
KISS Institute for Practical Robotics (KIPR), 01/2003–present Botball Instructor, 01/2006–present Technical workshop instructor in Greater St. Louis, Greater San Diego, Greater Los Angeles, Northern California, Oklahoma, and Qatar regions, 05/2006–present Greater St. Louis and Greater Los Angeles regional organizer, 05/2007–present Team mentor for North Hollywood High School, 12/2009–present Game designer and tournament coordinator, 05/2008–present Software and hardware debugger, 01/2003–present Champion competitor, 01/2003–present
HONORS
Awards: George Bekey Service Award, USC Interaction Lab, Los Angeles, CA, 2015. Finalist, USC 6th Annual Graduate Research Symposium, Los Angeles, CA, 2014. Innovation in Service Learning Award, USC Community Service Awards, Los Angeles, CA, 2013. Outstanding Doctoral Consortium Paper Runner-Up Award, Doctoral Consortium of 2012 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2012), Santa Monica, CA, 2012. Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award, USC Office of Graduate & Professional Programs, Los Angeles, CA, 2012. Best Presentation Award, Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS 2011) Workshop on Human-Robot Interaction: Perspectives and Contributions to Robotics from the Human Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, 2011.
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Best Poster Award, Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS 2011) Workshop on Human- Robot Interaction: Perspectives and Contributions to Robotics from the Human Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, 2011. Best Paper Award Nominee, The 19th IEEE International Symposium in Robot and Human Interactive Communication (Ro-Man 2010), Viareggio, Italy, 2010. SIUE Outstanding Graduate Student Award, Edwardsville, IL, 2008. Technical Innovation Award for Hardware and Software Integration, Mobile Robot Competition of 2008 Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI- 08), Chicago, IL, 2008. Technical Innovation Award for Multi-Robot Coordination, Mobile Robot Competition of 2008 Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-08), Chicago, IL, 2008. Technical Innovation Award for Multi-Robot Coordination, Robot Competition and Exhibition of 2007 Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-07), Vancouver, BC, 2007. Student Laureate of The Lincoln Academy of Illinois, The Lincoln Academy of Illinois, Springfield, IL, 2007. SIUE Best Senior Project in Engineering, The 2007 SIUE Senior Project Showcase, Edwardsville, IL, 2007. SIUE Best Poster, 2007 SIUE Graduate Research Symposium, Edwardsville, IL, 2007. SIUE Nori’s Sushi Restaurant Scholarship, Edwardsville, IL, 2007. SIUE Undergraduate Research Academy Scholar, Edwardsville, IL, 2006. SIUE Undergraduate Research Academy Scholar, Edwardsville, IL, 2005. SIUE Ella Ott Wiesmann Award, Edwardsville, IL, 2006. SIUE Outstanding Sophomore Award, Edwardsville, IL, 2005.
Competitions: Finalist, Quori, 2015 International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2015) Robot Design Competition, Paris, France, October 2015. Champion, Team Crash, Robot Combat League (Season 1), Los Angeles, CA, 2013. Quarterfinalist, Team A.X.E., Robot Combat League (Season 1), Los Angeles, CA, 2013. 1st Place, International Beyond Botball Robotics Competition, Honolulu, HI, 2007. 2nd Place, International Beyond Botball Robotics Competition, Norman, OK, 2006. 2nd Place, Mechmania XI: National ACM C++/AI Programming Contest, Urbana- Champaign, IL, 2005. 1st Place, International Collegiate Botball Robotics Competition, San Jose, CA, 2004. 1st Place, Illinois State WYSE Academic Challenge Test in Computer Science, Urbana- Champaign, IL, 2003. 1st Place, SIUE Robotics Competition, 2002. 1st Place, SIUE Robotics Competition, 2001.
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GRANTS, CONTRACTS, AND GIFTS
Significant Contributions: NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps) grant for "Semio: Customer Discovery for a Software Platform for Human-Robot Interaction". PI: R. Mead (Semio). Co-PI: A. Belz (USC). Amount: $50,000 total. 03/2016–11/2016 NSF National Robotics Initiative (NRI) grant for "Socially Aware, Expressive, and Personalized Mobile Remote Presence: Co-Robots as Gateways to Access to K-12 In- School Education". PI: M. Matarić (USC). Co-PI: G. Ragusa (USC). Amount: $600,000 total. 09/2015–08/2017 NSF EAGER grant for "Studying the Dynamics of In-Home Adoption of Socially Assistive Robot Companions for the Elderly". PI: M. Matarić (USC). Co-PIs: L. Zeliski (USC) and S. Wu (USC). Amount: $250,000 total. 09/2015–08/2017 NSF Computing Research Infrastructure (CRI) grant for "CI-New: Collaborative Research: A Modular Platform for Enabling Computing Research in Intelligent Human- Robot Interaction", PI: M. Yim (UPenn). Co-PI: M. Matarić. $999,999 total ($324,334 USC portion with Matarić as PI), 05/2015–05/2018 NSF National Robotics Initiative (NRI) Small collaborative grant for "Spatial Primitives for Enabling Situated Human-Robot Interaction" (IIS-1208500). PI: M. Matarić (USC). Co-PIs: C. Nass (Stanford). Amount: $750,000 total. 07/2012–07/2017
Completed: iRobot Ava Mobile Robotics® Platform for "Socially Aware Navigation for the iRobot Ava® Mobile Robotics Platform". PI: M. Matarić. Amount: $60,000. 05/2014–05/2016 USC Undergraduate Research Associates Program (URAP) award for "SmartRoom: Designing a Sensor-rich Environment for Monitoring and Controlling Human-Robot Interaction Experiments". PI: M. Matarić. Amount: $9,500. 04/2014–08/2015 NSF Smart Health and Wellbeing (SHB) Small grant for "Socially Assistive Human- Machine Interaction for Improved Compliance and Health Outcomes" (IIS-1117279). PI: M. Matarić (USC). Amount: $422,547 total. 12/2011–08/2015 NSF Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) collaborative grant for "Maximizing Mentor Effectiveness In Increasing Student Interest And Success In STEM: An Empirical Approach Employing Robotics Education" (DRL-1139415). PI: G. Mayer (SIUE). Co-PIs: M. Matarić (USC), S. Thomas (SIUE), S. Locke (SIUE), J.B. Weinberg (SIUE), S. Marlette (SIUE). Amount: $778,481 total ($353,073 USC portion with Matarić as PI). 07/2011–07/2014 Intel 21st Century Robot grant for "Social Behavior Library (SBL)". PI: M. Matarić. Amount: $30,000. 09/2013–05/2014 USC Undergraduate Research Associates Program (URAP) award for "Space, Speech, and Gesture: Enabling Technologies for Situated Human-Robot Interaction". PI: M. Matarić. Amount: $10,000. 08/2012–08/2013 USC Undergraduate Research Associates Program (URAP) award for "Automated Caricature of Robot Expressions in Socially Assistive Human-Robot Interaction". PI: M. Matarić. Amount: $10,000. 08/2011–05/2012
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USC Undergraduate Research Associates Program (URAP) award for "A Distributed Approach to Multi-Robot Obstacle Avoidance". PI: M. Matarić. Amount: $6,000. 08/2010–05/2011 SIUE Research Grants for Graduate Students (RGGS) award for "Cellular Automata for Control and Interaction of Large Formations of Robots". Fall 2007, PI: R. Mead. Amount: $330. 08/2007–08/2008 SIUE Undergraduate Research Academy (URA) award for "Impromptu Teams of Heterogeneous Mobile Robots". PI: J.B. Weinberg. Amount: $1,200. 05/2006–05/2007 SIUE Undergraduate Research Academy (URA) award for "Algorithms for Control and Interaction of Large Formations of Robots". PI: J.B. Weinberg. Amount: $1,200. 05/2005– 05/2006
PUBLICATIONS
Theses (2) 1. Mead, R. (2016) "Situated Proxemics and Multimodal Communication: Space, Speech, and Gesture in Human-Robot Interaction", PhD Dissertation, 2015, University of Southern California (USC). 2. Mead, R. (2008) "Cellular Automata for Control and Interactions of Robots in Large Formations", Master's Thesis, 2008, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE).
Journal Articles (5) 1. Mead, R. and Matarić, M.J. (2016) "Robots Have Needs Too: How and Why People Adapt Their Proxemic Behavior to Improve Robot Social Signal Understanding", Journal of Human-Robot Interaction, 5(2), pp. 48-68. 2. Mead, R. and Matarić, M.J. (2016) "Autonomous Human-Robot Proxemics: Socially Aware Navigation based on Interaction Potential", Autonomous Robots, pp. 1-13. 3. Mead, R. and Matarić, M.J. (2016) "Perceptual Models of Human-Robot Proxemics", Experimental Robotics, Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, 109, pp. 261-276. 4. Mead, R., Atrash, A., and Matarić, M. (2013) "Automated Proxemic Feature Extraction and Behavior Recognition: Applications in Human-Robot Interaction", International Journal of Social Robotics, 5(3), pp. 367-368. 5. Wade, E., Parnandi, A., Mead, R., and Matarić, M. (2012) "Socially Assistive Robotics for Guiding Motor Task Practice", Paladyn Journal of Behavioral Robotics Special Issue on Assistive and Rehabilitation Robotics, 2(4), pp. 218-227.
Book Chapters (2) 1. Thomas, S.L., Weinberg, J.B., and Mead, R.A. (2015) "Mentoring for STEM Self-Efficacy Through Robotics", Handbook on Research in Robotics and Mechatronics, IGI Global, to appear. 2. Mead, R.A., Thomas, S.L., and Weinberg, J.B. (2012) "From Grade School to Grad School: An Integrated STEM Pipeline Model through Robotics", Robots in K-12 Education: A New Technology for Learning, Bradley S. Barker, Gwen Nugent, Neal Grandgenett, and Viacheslav I. Adamchuk (eds.), IGI Global.
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Conference Proceedings (10) 1. Mead, R. and Matarić, M.J (2015) "Proxemics and Performance: Subjective Human Evaluations of Autonomous Sociable Robot Distance and Social Signal Understanding", Proceedings of The IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2015), Hamburg, Germany, September/October 2015, pp. 5984-5991. 2. Mead, R. and Matarić, M.J (2015) "Robots Have Needs Too: People Adapt Their Proxemic Preferences to Improve Autonomous Robot Understanding of Human Social Signals", Proceedings of The Fourth International Symposium on New Frontiers in Human-Robot Interaction (NF-HRI 2015), University of Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom, April 2015. (Best Paper Award.) 3. Tosun, T., Mead, R., and Stengel, R. (2014) "A General Method for Kinematic Retargeting: Adapting Poses between Humans and Robots", in the Proceedings of the ASME 2014 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE 2014), Montreal, Quebec, November 2014. 4. Mead, R. and Matarić, M.J. (2014) "Perceptual Models of Human-Robot Proxemics", Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Experimental Robotics (ISER 2014), Marrakech/Essaouira, Morocco, June 2014. 5. Mead, R., Zeltner, S., and Matarić, M.J. (2013) "Integrating ROS into Educational Robotics: Bridging the Gap between Grade School and Grad School", Proceedings of the 2013 Global Conference on Educational Robotics (GCER 2013), Norman, Oklahoma, July 2013, online. 6. Mead, R., Atrash, A., and Matarić, M.J. (2011) "Proxemic Feature Recognition for Interactive Robots: Automating Metrics from the Social Sciences", Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2011), Amsterdam, Netherlands, November 2011, pp. 52-61. 7. St. Clair, A., Mead, R., and Matarić, M.J. (2011) "Investigating the Effects of Visual Saliency on Deictic Gesture Production by a Humanoid Robot", Proceedings of The 20th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (Ro-Man 2011), Atlanta, Georgia, July-August 2011, pp. 210-216. 8. Wade, E.R., Dye, J., Mead, R., and Matarić, M.J. (2011) "Assessing the Quality and Quantity of Social Interaction in a Socially Assistive Robot-Guided Therapeutic Setting", The 2011 IEEE 12th International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR 2011), Zurich, Switzerland, June-July 2011, pp. 1-6. 9. Mead, R., Wade, E.R., Johnson, P., St. Clair, A., Chen, S., and Matarić, M.J. (2010) "An Architecture for Rehabilitation Task Practice in Socially Assistive Human-Robot Interaction", Proceedings of The 19th IEEE International Symposium in Robot and Human Interactive Communication (Ro-Man 2010), Viareggio, Italy, September 2010, pp. 404- 409. (Best Paper Award Nominee.) 10. Mead, R., Long, R., and Weinberg, J.B. (2009) "Fault-Tolerant Formations of Mobile Robots", Proceedings of The 2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2009), St. Louis, MO, October 2009, pp. 4805-4810.
Conference Posters and Videos (17) 1. Mead, R. and Matarić, M.J. (2016) "Autonomous Human-Robot Proxemics: A Robot- Centered Approach", Proceedings of The 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on
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Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2016), Christchurch, New Zealand, March 2016, pp. 573- 573. 2. Mead, R., Yim, M., Matarić, M.J., Kim, S., McDorman, B., Specian, A., Eckenstein, N., Chen, Y., and Lee, J. (2015) "Introducing Quori: A Community-Driven Modular Social Robot Platform for Human-Robot Interaction", The 2015 Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Fall Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Human-Robot Interaction (AI-HRI 2015), Arlington, Virginia, November 2015. 3. Mead, R., Yim, M., Matarić, M.J., Kim, S., McDorman, B., Specian, A., Eckenstein, N., Chen, Y., and Lee, J. (2015) "Quori: A Community-Driven Modular Social Robot Platform for Human-Robot Interaction", 2015 International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2015) Robot Design Competition, Paris, France, October 2015. 4. Mead, R. Atrash, A. Kaszubski, E., St. Clair, A., Greczek, J., Clabaugh, C., Kohan, B. and Matarić, M.J. (2014) "Building Blocks of Social Intelligence: Enabling Autonomy for Socially Intelligent and Assistive Robots", The 2014 Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Fall Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Human-Robot Interaction (AI-HRI 2014), Arlington, Virginia, November 2014. 5. Mead, R. and Matarić, M.J. (2013) "Autonomous Control of Human-Robot Spacing: A Socially Situated Approach", ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI 2013), Los Angeles, California, July 2013, pp. 91-91. 6. Mead, R. and Salem, M. (2012) "Workshop on Speech and Gesture Production in Virtually and Physically Embodied Conversational Agents", Proceedings of the 14th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2012), Santa Monica, California, October 2012, pp. 607-608. 7. Lu, D.V. and Mead, R. (2012) "Introducing Students Grades 6-12 to Expressive Robotics", Proceedings of The 7th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2012), Boston, Massachusetts, March 2012, pp. 411-412. 8. Mead, R. and Matarić, M.J. (2012) "A Probabilistic Framework for Autonomous Proxemic Control in Situated and Mobile Human-Robot Interaction", Proceedings of The 7th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2012), Boston, Massachusetts, March 2012, pp. 193-194. 9. Tosun, T., Mead, R., and Matarić, M.J. (2012) "Kinematic Retargeting with Potential Fields: Enabling a Unified Social Behavior Repository", Proceedings of The 7th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2012), Boston, Massachusetts, March 2012, presented. 10. Mead, R., Atrash, A., and Matarić, M.J. (2011) "Recognition of Spatial Dynamics for Predicting Social Interaction", The 6th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human- Robot Interaction (HRI 2011), Lausanne, Switzerland, March 2011, pp. 201-202. 11. Beer, B., Mead, R., and Weinberg, J.B. (2010) "A Distributed Method for Evaluating Properties of a Robot Formation", Student Abstract and Poster Program of the 24th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2010), Atlanta, GA, July 2010, pp. 19 23- 1924. 12. Long, R., Mead, R., and Weinberg, J.B. (2010) "Distributed Auction-Based Initialization of Mobile Robot Formations", Student Abstract and Poster Program of the 24th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2010), Atlanta, GA, July 2010, pp. 1949-1950. 13. Mead, R. and Matarić, M.J. (2009) "The Power of Suggestion: Teaching Sequences Through Assistive Robot Motions", Proceedings of The 4th ACM/IEEE International
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Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2009) Pioneers Workshop, San Diego, CA, March 2009, pp. 317-318. 14. Mead, R. and Weinberg, J.B. (2008) "2-Dimensional Cellular Automata Approach for Robot Grid Formations", Student Abstract and Poster Program of the 23rd National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2008), Chicago, IL, July 2008, pp. 1818-1819. 15. Mead, R. and Weinberg. J.B. (2007) "Impromptu Teams of Heterogeneous Mobile Robots", Student Abstract and Poster Program of the 22nd National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2007), Vancouver, BC, July 2007, pp. 1890-1891. 16. Mead, R., Weinberg, J.B., and Croxell, J.R. (2007) "An Implementation of Robot Formations using Local Interactions", Student Abstract and Poster Program of the 22nd National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2007), Vancouver, BC, July 2007, pp. 1989-1990. (Technical Innovation Award for Multi-Robot Coordination.) 17. Mead, R. and Weinberg, J.B. (2006) "Algorithms for Control and Interaction of Large Formations of Robots", Student Abstract and Poster Program of the 21st National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2006), Boston, MA, July 2006, pp. 1891-1892.
Workshop Papers (17) 1. Deng., E., and Mead, R. (2016) "Electromagnetic Platform Stabilization for Mobile Robots", The 2016 Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2016) Spring Symposium on Enabling Computing Research in Socially Intelligent Human-Robot Interaction: A Community-Driven Modular Research Platform (SS-16-03), Stanford, CA, March 2016. 2. Mead, R. and Matarić, M.J. (2015) "Toward Robot Adaptation of Human Speech and Gesture Parameters in a Unified Framework of Proxemics and Multimodal Communication", 2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2015) Workshop on Machine Learning for Social Robots, Seattle, Washington, May 2015. 3. Mead, R. and Matarić, M.J. (2015) "Social Robotics in the Middle School Classroom: Increasing Student STEM Achievement-Related Choices", The 10th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2015) Education Workshop: How to design and teach courses in Human-Robot Interaction, Portland, Oregon, March 2015. 4. Mead, R. and Matarić, M.J. (2014) "Probabilistic Models of Proxemics for Spatially Situated Communication in HRI", The 9th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2014) Algorithmic Human-Robot Interaction Workshop, Bielefeld, Germany, March 2014. 5. Mead, R. (2012) "Space, Speech, and Gesture in Human-Robot Interaction", Doctoral Consortium of The 14th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2012), Santa Monica, California, October 2012, pp. 333-336. (Outstanding Doctoral Consortium Paper Runner-Up Award.) 6. Mead, R., Atrash, A., and Matarić, M.J. (2012) "Representations of Proxemic Behavior for Human-Machine Interaction", 6th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (NordiCHI 2012) Workshop on Proxemics in Human-Computer Interaction, Copenhagen, Denmark, October 2012. 7. Mead, R., Atrash, A., and Matarić, M.J. (2011) "Automated Analysis of Proxemic Behavior: Leveraging Metrics from the Social Sciences", 2011 Robotics: Science and
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Systems (RSS 2011) Workshop on Human-Robot Interaction: Perspectives and Contributions to Robotics from the Human Sciences, Los Angeles, California, July 2011. (Best Presentation Award and Best Poster Award.) 8. St. Clair, A., Atrash, A., Mead, R., and Matarić, M.J. (2011) "Speech, Gesture, and Space: Investigating Explicit and Implicit Communication in Multi-Human Multi-Robot Collaborations", The 2011 Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2011) Spring Symposium on Multi-Robot Systems and Physical Data Structures (SS-11- 07), Stanford, CA, March 2011. 9. Beer, B., Mead, R., and Weinberg, J.B. (2011) "A Distributed Spanning Tree Method for Extracting System and Environmental Information from a Network of Mobile Robots", The 2011 Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2011) Spring Symposium on Multi-Robot Systems and Physical Data Structures (SS-11-07), Stanford, CA, March 2011. 10. Mead, R., Weinberg, J.B., and Matarić, M.J. (2010) "An Ontology-based Multimodal Communication System for Human-Robot Interaction in Socially Assistive Domains", 2010 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2010) Workshop on Multimodal Human-Robot Interfaces, Anchorage, AK, May 2010. 11. St. Clair, A., Mead, R., and Matarić, M.J. (2010) "Monitoring and Guiding User Attention and Intention in Human-Robot Interaction", 2010 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2010) Workshop on Interactive Communication for Autonomous Intelligent Robots (ICAIR), Anchorage, AK, May 2010. 12. Mead, R. and Matarić, M.J. (2010) "Automated Caricature of Robot Expressions in Socially Assistive Human-Robot Interaction", The 5th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2010) Workshop on What Do Collaborations with the Arts Have to Say about HRI?, Osaka, Japan, March 2010. 13. Mead, R. and Weinberg, J.B. (2008) "A Distributed Control Algorithm for Robots in Grid Formations", The 2008 Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2008) Workshop on Mobile Robotics: Mobility and Manipulation (WS-08-02), Chicago, IL, July 2008. (Technical Innovation Award for Multi-Robot Coordination.) 14. Mead, R., Weinberg, J.B., Toennies, J., Croxell, J.R., Adams, B., Engel, G., Hiatt, J., Italiano, N., Krauss, R., Backs, A., and Gorlewicz, M. (2008) "Road Runner: An Autonomous Vehicle for HRI Research", The 2008 Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2008) Workshop on Mobile Robotics: Mobility and Manipulation (WS-08-02), Chicago, IL, July 2008. (Technical Innovation Award for Hardware and Software Integration.) 15. Weinberg, J.B., Yu, W., Wheeler-Smith, K., Knight, R., Mead, R., Bernstein, I., Croxell, J., and Webster, D. (2008) "Making Intelligent Walking Robots Accessible to Educators: A Brain and Sensor Pack for Legged Mobile Robots", The 2008 Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2008) Workshop on AI Education, Chicago, IL, July 2008, pp. 84-89. 16. Mead, R., Weinberg, J.B., and Croxell, J.R. (2007) "A Demonstration of a Robot Formation Control Algorithm and Platform", Robot Competition and Exhibition (WS-07- 15) of the 22nd National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2007), Vancouver, BC, July 2007, pp. 23-27. 17. Croxell, J.R., Mead, R., and Weinberg, J.B. (2007) "Designing Robot Competitions That Promote AI Solutions: Lessons Learned Competing and Designing", The 2007 American
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Association of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2007) Spring Symposium on Robots and Robot Venues: Resources for AI Education (SS-07-09), Stanford, CA, March 2007, pp. 29-34.
Technical Reports (2) 1. Mead, R. and Matarić, M.J. (2011) "An Experimental Design for Studying Proxemic Behavior in Human-Robot Interaction", Technical Report of the USC Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems (CRES-11-001), Los Angeles, CA, September 2011. 2. Mead, R., Atrash, A., and Matarić, M.J. (2011) "A Preliminary Validation of Automated Feature Recognition for Proxemic Behavior Analysis", Technical Report of the USC Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems (CRES-11-002), Los Angeles, CA, September 2011.
INVITED TALKS (EXCLUDING CONFERENCE PAPER PRESENTATIONS) 1. "Human-Robot Proxemics & Multimodal Communication", SCI-Arc AS2512: Til Human Voices Wake Us, Los Angeles, CA, September 2016. 2. "Semio: Integrated Speech and Body Language Software for Developers of Social Robots", Technology Scouting Workshop 2016, Los Angeles, CA, June 2016. 3. "From Student to Startup", The 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human- Robot Interaction (HRI 2016) Pioneers Workshop, Christchurch, New Zealand, March 2016. 4. "Hello, Robot: Making Robots You Can Talk To", Riverside Robotics Society, Riverside, CA, August 2015. 5. "Making Robots Social", Bravo High School, Los Angeles, CA, July 2015. 6. "Building Blocks of Social Intelligence: Enabling Autonomy for Socially Intelligent and Assistive Robots", USC Computer Science Advisory Board, November 2014. 7. "Modeling Space, Speech, and Gesture for Social Robots", USC iLab, October 2014. 8. "Science on Screen: Robot & Frank", Cinefamily, Los Angeles, CA, June 2014. 9. "Designing Social Behaviors for Personal Robots", Immersive Education Initiative (IMMERSION 2014), Los Angeles, CA, June 2014. 10. "Designing Behaviors for Sociable Robots: Building Blocks for Social Intelligence", The AAAI at USC, Los Angeles, CA, March 2014. 11. "Designing Behaviors for Sociable Robots", Mathobotix, Irvine, CA, August 2013. 12. "Designing Social Behaviors for Interactive Robots", The 2013 Global Conference on Educational Robotics (GCER 2013), Norman, OK, July 2013. 13. "Designing Robots that Interact with People", Mathobotix, Irvine, CA, June 2013. 14. "From Robot Competitor to Robot Combatant... And Everything in Between", The 2013 European Conference on Educational Robotics (ECER 2013), Vienna, Austria, April 2013. 15. "What is a Robot?", USC Robotics Open House, Los Angeles, CA, April 2013. 16. "From the RCX to the PR2: Steps to Becoming a Robot Scientist", The 2010 Global Conference on Educational Robotics (GCER 2010), Edwardsville, IL, July 2010.
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STUDENT MENTORING
Master's Student Mentor to 22 students:
Past (22): 1. Pierre Johnson (Fall 2009–Spring 2010) 2. Avinash Parnandi (Fall 2009–Spring 2010) 3. Vikramjeet Singh (Summer 2010) 4. Jamy Li (Summer 2010) 5. Divya Sharma (Fall 2011–Fall 2012) 6. Saranyaraj Rajendran (Spring 2012–Summer 2012) 7. Akanxa Padhi (Spring 2012–Fall 2012) 8. Tian Zhu (Summer 2012–Spring 2013) 9. Dhruv Monga (Summer 2012–Spring 2014) 10. Stefan Zeltner (Fall 2012–Spring 2015) 11. Zheng Tao (Spring 2013) 12. Shuo Wang (Fall 2013) 13. Nivedita Manjunath (Fall 2013–Spring 2014) 14. George Puthanpurackal (Fall 2013–Spring 2014) 15. Akash Metawala (Fall 2013–Summer 2014) 16. Lixing Liu (Fall 2013–Fall 2015) 17. Jigar Gada (Spring 2014) 18. Yash Goyal (Spring 2014–Fall 2014) 19. Aditya Bhatter (Spring 2014–Spring 2015) 20. Anagha Kulkarni (Spring 2014–Spring 2015) 21. Varalika Tripathi (Fall 2014) 22. Kedar Prabhu (Fall 2014–Spring 2015)
Undergraduate Student Mentor to 42 students:
Past (42): 1. Karie Lau (Fall 2008–Spring 2009) 2. Lynn Jane Ho (Fall 2008–Spring 2009) 3. Mary Grace Ermitanio (Spring 2009–Fall 2011) 4. Julia Chaves (Summer 2010) 5. Austen Hagio (Summer 2010) 6. Yeon Jin (Grace) Lee (Summer 2010) 7. Gavin McCarter (Summer 2010–Summer 2011) 8. Cauchy Choi (Fall 2010–Spring 2011) 9. John O'Hollaren (Fall 2010–Fall 2011) 10. Suk-Jin Lee (Fall 2010–Fall 2011) 11. Dan Ho (Summer 2011) 12. Aravindh Mahendran (Summer 2011) 13. Rory Shevin (Summer 2011) 14. Tarik Tosun (Summer 2011–Summer 2012) 15. Jeff Kamei (Summer 2011–Fall 2012)
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16. Edward Kaszubski (Summer 2011–Spring 2014) 17. Dhruv Monga (Fall 2011–Spring 2012) 18. Alex Jones (Spring 2012–Spring 2013) 19. Amy Nham (Spring 2012–Spring 2013) 20. Dylan Foster (Spring 2012–Summer 2014) 21. Andrew Downing (Spring 2012–Fall 2014) 22. Nathan Lin (Summer 2012) 23. Kathryn Yu (Summer 2012–Fall 2012) 24. Victor Sherman (Fall 2012–Spring 2013) 25. Yingchao Lin (Spring 2013–Summer 2013) 26. Peter Zhang (Spring 2013–Spring 2014) 27. Connie Wu (Summer 2013–Spring 2014) 28. Everardo Uribe (Fall 2013) 29. Lauren Howe (Fall 2013–Spring 2014) 30. Colette Speer (Fall 2013–Spring 2014) 31. Brian Kim (Fall 2013–Fall 2014) 32. Braden McDorman (Fall 2013–Spring 2015) 33. Erika King (Spring 2014–Summer 2014) 34. Lizhi Fan (Spring 2014–Fall 2014) 35. Anna Flynn (Summer 2014) 36. Min Young Huh (Summer 2014) 37. Jonathan Frey (Fall 2014–Spring 2015) 38. Cherrie Wang (Fall 2014–Spring 2015) 39. Eric Deng (Fall 2014–Fall 2015) 40. Tianchen (Frank) Zhang (Spring 2015–Summer 2015) 41. Madison Evans (Summer 2015) 42. Tsung-Han (Stephen) Sher (Summer 2015–Fall 2015)
K-12 Student Mentor to 22 students:
Past (22): 1. Trevor Frese (Spring 2010–Summer 2012) 2. Victor Sherman (Spring 2010–Summer 2012) 3. Ben Shukman (Spring 2010–Summer 2012) 4. Carlos Cifuentes (Summer 2011) 5. Jacob Copus (Summer 2011) 6. David Cox (Summer 2011) 7. Daniel Flamenco (Summer 2011) 8. Christina Ramsey (Summer 2011) 9. Kaylee Guzman (Fall 2011–Spring 2012) 10. Christopher Hernandez (Fall 2011–Spring 2012) 11. Daniela Raygoza (Fall 2011–Spring 2012) 12. Colette Speer (Summer 2012–Summer 2013) 13. Aldo Martinez (Fall 2012–Summer 2013) 14. Helena Roberts-Matarić (Summer 2013) 15. Katie Gundlach (Summer 2013–Spring 2014)
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16. Denny Min (Summer 2013–Spring 2014) 17. Edward Leon (Fall 2013–Spring 2014) 18. Ashim Nabith (Fall 2013–Spring 2014) 19. Nicole Chen (Summer 2014) 20. Chloe Grubb (Summer 2014–Summer 2015) 21. Paul Chong (Fall 2014–Spring 2015) 22. Jeanelle Guardado (Fall 2014–Spring 2015)
K-12 EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH Instructor for Schooling for Life: Developed and delivered hardware, software, and curricular materials to increase high school student knowledge of robot design, construction, and programming using hands-on activities in a formal classroom setting. 09/2016–10/2016 General Organizer of the 2014 Global Conference on Educational Robotics (GCER-2014): Organized the conference, including venue, housing, events, activities, budget, and purchases. Students and teachers give presentations and exchange ideas on topics that range from curriculum integration to technical aspects of robotics. Professional speakers provide inspiration and insight into their robotics-related topics of expertise. The conference features the International Botball Tournament, as well as the KIPR Open Tournament for adults. 07/2013–07/2014 Google CS4HS Project on USC Computer Science Mentorship for the Advancement of Teachers and Students in Los Angeles (USC CSMARTS in LA): Developed and delivered hardware, software, and curricular materials to increase high school teacher and student knowledge of computational thinking through the use of robotics programming, using a participatory hands-on teacher in-service professional development approach with a hybrid delivery. The provided materials were utilized by teachers in their own curricular development, and shared with students for building and manipulation in preparations for integrating computational thinking through robotics into the curriculum and for participation in robot competitions. 05/2013–12/2013 PhD Research Fellow of the USC Body Engineering Los Angeles (BELA) program: Integrated socially assistive robotics into middle school STEM curricula; taught two full days a week at Barack Obama Global Preparation Academy in Los Angeles, working primarily with underrepresented minorities (e.g., African-American and Latino/Latina students), as well as underprivileged students (e.g., at-risk and Title-1). 05/2012–05/2013 Book Chapter on Robotics in K-12 STEM Education: Published a book chapter on integrating robotics into K-12 STEM education, and proposed an educational pipeline model that relies on mentorship and collaborations between K-12 and higher education. The book chapter highlights activities and programs to increase self-efficacy in populations underrepresented in STEM (in particular, girls). 02/2012 Started the Greater Los Angeles Botball Regional: Botball is an international educational robotics program that engages middle school and high school students in STEM through the designing, building, and programming of autonomous robotics for a head-to-head competition. After only a year since its inception, the Greater Los Angeles Botball Regional is now the largest Botball regional in the world. 01/2012–present
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Instructor for the Botball Educational Robotics Program: Assisted in the design and dissemination of Botball-related materials and activities. Provided educational tools and face-to-face training to support robotics and STEM classroom instruction for the long term. Served as an instructor in the Greater St. Louis, Greater San Diego, Greater Los Angeles, Northern California, Oklahoma, and Qatar regions. 12/2005–present NSF Innovative Technology Experiences for Student and Teachers (ITEST) Grant: Co- authored with university and industry collaborators to investigate the effectiveness of different mentoring strategies in increasing student self-efficacy in STEM. The USC research effort is primarily targeted at underrepresented populations, specifically African- American and Latino/Latina students. The grant has reached over 300 students and mentors in the Greater Los Angeles area. 07/2011–07/2015 National Robotics Initiative (NRI) K-12 Workshops: As part of the NRI grant, included a strong K-12 outreach component, integrating sociable robotics research into a series of STEM activities and workshops for kids. 07/2012–12/2015 NSF Smart Health and Wellbeing (SHB) K-12 Workshops: As part of the SHB grant, included a strong K-12 outreach component, integrating sociable robotics research into a series of STEM activities and workshops. 12/2011–08/2015 Workshop on Expressive Robotics–Motion and Emotion: Organized and taught an educational workshop focused on sociable robotics. The workshop engages middle school and high school students in STEM and the social sciences by having them program robots to move in ways that express emotion. The workshop culminates in a series of short films, in which the students author their own storyline and program to make their robots tell a story through motion. 07/2011–07/2015 Mentor for the USC Engineering for Health Academy (EHA): Worked with five Latino/Latina students from Bravo Medical Magnet High School, engaging them in STEM through hands-on robotics activities. 08/2011–05/2015 Mentor for the USC Center for Engineering Diversity (CED): Mentored four underrepresented students. Students were taught principles of computer science and engineering, and applied them by programming an robot to autonomously follow a person around a room while avoiding obstacles. 05/2011–08/2011 Mentor and Judge for the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC): Worked with underrepresented middle school students at Foshay Learning Center in Los Angeles in FRC and FIRST LEGO League (FLL). FRC and FLL engage students in hands-on mentor-based programs in STEM. 10/2008–10/2015 Started the Robotics Club at Barack Obama Global Preparatory Academy (BOGPA): Served as a mentor for middle school students participating in the Botball Educational Robotics Program. 08/2012–07/2013 Started the Robotics Club at North Hollywood High School (NHHS): Served as a mentor for high school students participating in the Botball Educational Robotics Program. 12/2010–08/2015 USC Robotics Open House (part of National Robotics Week): Provided robotics demos, presentations, and workshops for thousands of children and adults from the local community. 04/2009–04/2015 Lab Tour Coordinator: Scheduled and guided weekly tours of the USC Robotics Research Labs, including the Interaction Lab, the Robotic Embedded Systems Laboratory, and the Computational Learning and Motor Control Lab. 04/2009–12/2015
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Started the Greater St. Louis Botball Regional: Botball is an international educational robotics program that engages middle school and high school students in STEM through the designing, building, and programming of autonomous robotics for a head-to-head competition. 01/2008–08/2014
SERVICE
Advisory Board/Committee Memberships Board of Directors, KISS Institute for Practical Robotics (KIPR), 2016–present. Committee Member—Finance Committee, KISS Institute for Practical Robotics (KIPR), 2016–present. Vice President, Los Angeles Robotics, 2014–2015. Committee Chair—Botball, Los Angeles Robotics, 2014–present. Committee Chair—Educational STEM Research, Los Angeles Robotics, 2014–present. Committee Chair—Social Media, Los Angeles Robotics, 2014–present. Committee Member—Educational Outreach, Los Angeles Robotics, 2014–present. Scientific Advisor, National Geographic, 2013–2015. Scientific Committee, Canada Youth Robotics Club, 2016–present. Scientific Committee, Practical Robotics Institute Austria (PRIA), 2012–present. Advisory Board Member, Robot Edutainment, 2011–present.
Society Memberships Founder, Socially Intelligent Robot Characters at USC (SIRC-USC), 2014–2015. President, Socially Intelligent Robot Characters at USC (SIRC-USC), 2014–2015. President, Computer Association of SIUE (CAOS), ACM Chapter, 2005–2007. Treasurer, Computer Association of SIUE (CAOS), ACM Chapter, 2004–2005. Member, Computer Association of SIUE (CAOS), ACM Chapter, 2003–2008. Member, SIUE Chapter of Phi Kappa Phi, 2007–2008. Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2003–2008. Member, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2006–2016. Honorary Member, Riverside Robotics Society, 2015–present.
Organizing/Program Committees Program Committee Member, Human-Robot Interaction Pioneers Workshop, HRI 2017. Symposium Organizer (with D. Grollman, T. Ribeiro, T. Williams, P. Alves-Oliveira, R. Freedman, N. DePalma, G. Briggs, F. Broz, K. Lohan, and B. Hayes), Artificial Intelligence for Human-Robot Interaction (AI-HRI), AAAI Fall Symposium Series 2016. Workshop Organizer, Botball Game Design, GCER 2016. Workshop Co-organizer (with M. Yim and M. Matarić), Enabling Computing Research in Socially Intelligent Human-Robot Interaction: A Community-Driven Modular Research Platform, RSS 2016. Program Committee Member, 25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2016.
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Program Committee Member, 11th International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction Pioneers Workshop, HRI-Pioneers 2016. Program Committee Member, 5th International Symposium on New Frontiers in Human- Robot Interaction, NF-HRI 2016. Symposium Co-organizer (with M. Matarić and M. Yim), Enabling Computing Research in Socially Intelligent Human-Robot Interaction: A Community-Driven Modular Research Platform, AAAI Spring Symposium Series 2016. Workshop Co-organizer (with C. Clabaugh), Expressive Robotics: Motion and Emotion, GCER 2015. Program Committee Member, 4th International Symposium on New Frontiers in Human- Robot Interaction, NF-HRI 2015. General Organizer, Greater Los Angeles Botball Regional, Botball 2015. General Organizer, 2014 Global Conference on Educational Robotics, GCER 2014. General Organizer, Greater Los Angeles Botball Regional, Botball 2014. Workshop Organizer, Greater Los Angeles Botball Regional Workshop, Botball 2014. Workshop Co-organizer (with B. Kohan and C. Clabaugh), Expressive Robotics: Motion and Emotion, GCER 2014. Workshop Co-organizer (with A. Atrash), "What Should I Do?": Making Smart Robot Decisions On and Off the Game Board, GCER 2014. Program Committee Member, 3rd International Symposium on New Frontiers in Human- Robot Interaction, NF-HRI 2014. Program Committee Member, Mobile Assistive and Robotic Technology-based Systems, MobiSys 2014. Workshop Organizer, Expressive Robotics: Motion and Emotion, GCER 2013. General Organizer, Greater Los Angeles Botball Regional Tournament, Botball 2013. Workshop Organizer, Greater Los Angeles Botball Regional Workshop, Botball 2013. Workshop Co-organizer (with A. Atrash), Probabilistic approaches for robot control in human-robot interaction, HRI 2013. Workshop Organizer, Expressive Robotics: Motion and Emotion, GCER 2012. Workshop Co-organizer (with M. Salem), Speech and Gesture Production in Virtually and Physically Embodied Conversational Agents, ICMI 2012. General Organizer, Greater Los Angeles Botball Regional, Botball 2012. Workshop Organizer, Greater Los Angeles Botball Regional Workshop, Botball 2012. Workshop Co-organizer (with D. Lu), Expressive Robotics: Motion and Emotion, GCER 2011. General Co-organizer (with J. Weinberg), Greater St. Louis Botball Regional, Botball 2008. Workshop Co-organizer (with J. Weinberg), Greater St. Louis Botball Regional Workshop, Botball 2008.
Panels Panel Member, Human-Computer Interaction and Immersive Technology, Immersive Education Initiative, 2014. Panel Member, What Features (Do/Would) Make Robot Competitions & Exhibitions Compelling, Accessible, and Curricularly Relevant?, AAAI Spring Symposia 2007.
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Panel Chair, Leveraging Robot Competitions and Exhibitions, AAAI Spring Symposia 2007.
PERSONAL Citizenship: US Gender: Male
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