What do I work on?

I look for ways to make it easier for robots and humans to work together to complete complicated tasks. In particular, I focus on how to make it easier for humans to teach robots complex tasks and ways to facilitate effective real-time teaming. My research falls at the intersection of Learning from Demonstration (LfD), physical Human-Robot Interaction (PHRI), and shared autonomy.

Curriculum Vitae Research Statement

Recent News

April 2025 - I was named a 2025 RSS Pioneer!
April 2025 - Our paper, "REALM: Real-Time Estimates of Assistance for Learned Models in Human-Robot Interaction," was accepted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters!
November 2024 - Open-sourced a 3D printable design for a kinematic model of a Delta input device that can be used to learn more about parallel robot kinematics.
October 2024 - I gave a talk at the Cornell Robotics Seminar!
September 2024 - Hosted the first MIT Work of the Future Tech Forum on Humanoid Robots. Two more events on GenAI and Automation in Manufacturing happening this Fall!

Older News

July 2024 - Had a successful RSS Workshop on Mechanisms for Mapping Human Input to Robots with many great speakers and fantastic discussion! Photos here
June 2024 - Our paper, led by Anna Konstant, "Human-Robot Collaboration with a Corrective Shared Controlled Robot in a Sanding Task" was accepted to Human Factors
March 2024 - Our workshop for RSS Mechanisms for Mapping Human Input to Robots: From Robot Learning to Shared Control/Autonomy was accepted for July 15 in Delft! Please consider submitting to our workshop and attending!
March 2024 - Presented our human-robot teaming paper at HRI and presented at the Human-Machine Teaming Paradigm Meeting in Boulder, CO
January 2024 - Our paper, led by Felix Wang, Grounding Language Plans in Demonstrations Through Counterfactual Perturbations was accepted at ICLR 2024
December 2023 - Our paper A System for Human-Robot Teaming through End-User Programming and Shared Autonomy was accepted at HRI 2024
October 2023 - Our paper Coordinated Multi-Robot Shared Autonomy Based on Scheduling and Demonstrations was published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
September 2023 - Started as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the AeroAstro department at MIT working with Julie Shah
September 2023 - Some of our work on human-robot teaming for sanding was featured in the UW-Madison 175th Anniversary Video!
July 2023 - Defended my thesis: "Toward Effective Human-Robot Teaming through Corrections"
May 2023 - Excited to announce that I received a fellowship and will be starting as a postdoc at MIT this Fall!
May 2023 - Attended and presented at the Boeing Collaborative Robot Summit in Mesa, Arizona
April 2023 - Invited speaker for the Tufts Mechanical Engineering Colloquia
October 2022 - Attended and Presented at IROS 2022 in Kyoto, Japan
September 2022 - Our Franka Emika robot makes an appearance in the new UW-Madison commerical for TV spots.
August 2022 - Demonstrated Human-in-the-loop robot sanding prototype onsite at Boeing Everett.
June 2022 - A Method For Automated Drone Viewpoints to Support Remote Robot Manipulation and Registering Articulated Objects With Human-in-the-loop Corrections were both accepted to IROS 2022.
June 2022 - Received the Grainger Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellowship!
December 2021 - Passed my preliminary exam titled "Effective Human-Robot Teaming via Corrections."
December 2021 - Hosted Dr. Arash Ajoundani as part of the Wisconsin Robotics Seminar Series.
October 2021 - Hosted two sessions and presented at two sessions at IROS 2021
September 2021 - Affordance Template Registration via Human-in-the-loop Corrections was accepted for presentation at the 2021 IROS Space Robotics Workshop
June 2021 - Informing Real-time Corrections in Corrective Shared Autonomy Through Expert Demonstrations was accepted for publication in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.
June 2021 - Virtual summer internship at NASA Johnson Space Center.
May 2021 - Final class project investigating different 2D planning algorithms
Mar 2021 - Virtually hosted Dr SK Gupta from USC for the inaugural Wisconsin Robotics Seminar Series
Feb 2021 - "Recognizing Orientation Slipin Human Demonstrations" was accepted for publication at the 2021 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Feb 2021 - "Corrective Shared Autonomy for Addressing Task Variability" was accepted for publication in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RAL)
Feb 2021 - Presented a video and live Q&A as part of the 2021 NASA TACP Showcase
May 2020 - Created a method, FAMrec, for 3D pose recognition of arbitrary meshes as part of a computer vision class project
Feb 2020 -Completed Delta Intern Project - Problem-Based Learning Activity to Promote Adaptive Expertise
Nov 2019 -Traveled to Boeing Charleston to tour facility as part of the NASA ULI Project
Jul 2019 -Traveled to Washington DC as part of NASA University Leadership Initiative Kick-off

Recent Publications

I try to keep my google scholar page up to date. Below is an automatically generated set of recent pre-print publications from ArXiv:

Hello, I’m Mike.

What do I work on?

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