Bio
I am a Postdoctoral Associate in the Collaborative Robotics Lab (Collab) directed by Dr. Dylan Losey at Virginia Tech. I completed my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California (USC) under the guidance of Dr. Stefanos Nikolaidis and Dr. Satyandra K. Gupta, and M.S. in Robotics Engineering from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) under Dr. Zhi (Jane) Li.
My research focuses on enabling intelligent agents to quickly adapt to their human partners for assisting them in complex tasks; reducing human effort, increasing task efficiency, and improving user experience. Accordingly, my work lies at the intersection of robotics, machine learning, and human modeling.
In my Ph.D. thesis, I propose methods for efficiently learning human preferences without needing costly human demonstrations by leveraging similarities between different humans and different tasks.
Here is my CV!
For any questions you can reach me via email at hnemlekar@vt.edu.
