• BA, Psychology, Northwestern University, 1997
• MS, Computer Science, Boston University, 2001
• Ph D, Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009

Journal Articles

Chris McClurg and Alan R Wagner, 2026, "Developing Shooter Movement Models from Virtual Reality Simulation", SIMULATION, 0, (0)

C. Daryl Cameron, Alan R Wagner, Martina Orlandi, Eliana Hadjiandreou, India G Oates and Stephen Anderson, 2025, "Empathy for and From Embodied Robots: An Interdisciplinary Review", Current Directions in Psychological Science, pp. 176-184

Nicolo’ Brandizzi, Morgan E Bailey, Carolina Centeio Jorge, Myke C Cohen, Francesco Frattolillo and Alan R Wagner, 2025, "Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Human-AI Team Trust", Interaction Studies, 26, (2), pp. 151-163

Austin D McClymonds, Tyler Stephans, Somayeh Asadi, Robert M Leicht and Alan R Wagner, 2025, "Evaluation of Parameters that Impact Data Collection for Robot Progress Detection of a Masonry Wall", Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, 4, (2), pp. 14

Seyed Hossein Zargar, Robert Leicht, Alan R Wagner, Jose Duarte and Nathan Brown, 2025, "Beyond Trial and Error: Toward Construction-Aware Early Design Optimization Considering Robotic Capabilities", Architecture, Structures and Construction, 5, (10), pp. 10

Mollik Nayyar and Alan R Wagner, 2025, "Evacuee Behavior Modeling During Robot-Guided Evacuations", International Journal of Social Robotics, 17, (12), pp. 3155-3171

Muhammad Junayed Hasan Zahed, Bianca Selena Gonzalez, Jacob Langelaan and Alan R. Wagner, 2025, "Human Perception of Collision and Safety in Densely Populated Airspaces", Journal of Aerospace Information Systems, 22, (4), pp. 288-295

Colin Holbrook, Umesh Krishnamurthy, Paul P. Maglio and Alan R. Wagner, 2025, "Physical Anthropomorphism (but not Gender Presentation) Influences Trust in Household Robots", Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans, 3, pp. 100114

Colin Holbrook, Daniel Holman, Joshua Clingo and Alan R Wagner, 2024, "Overtrust in AI Recommendations to Kill", Scientific Reports, 14, (19751), pp. 16

Tongjia Zheng, Zhenyuan Yuan, Mollik Nayyar, Alan R Wagner, Minghui Zhu and Hai Lin, 2024, "Multi-Robot-Guided Crowd Evacuation: Two-Scale Modeling and Control", IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, pp. 12

Eduardo Mendieta and Alan R Wagner, 2024, "The Aristotelian Robot: Towards a Moral Phenomenology of Artificial Social Agents", Philosophy Today, 68, (2), pp. 327-340

Seyed Hossein Zargar, Robert M Leicht, Alan R Wagner and Nathan C. Brown, 2024, "Integrating Early Assessment of Robotic Constructability into Design Optimization of a Standalone Classroom", Automation in Construction, 157, pp. 105175

Ali Ayub and Alan R Wagner, 2023, "CBCL-PR: A Cognitively Inspired Model for Class-Incremental Learning in Robotics", IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, 15, (4), pp. 2004-2013

Vidullan Surendran and Alan R Wagner, 2023, "That was not What I was Aiming at! Differentiating Human Intent and Outcome in a Physically Dynamic Throwing Task", Autonomous Robots, 47, (2), pp. 249-265

Himavath Jois and Alan R Wagner, 2021, "What Happens When Robots Punish? Evaluating Human Task Performance during Robot-Initiated Punishment", Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, 10, (4), pp. 1–18

Alan Richard Wagner, 2021, "Robot Guided Evacuation as a Paradigm for Human Robot Interaction Research", Frontiers in Robotics and AI, Special Issue on Rising Stars in Human-Robot Interaction, pp. 14

David Feil-Seifer, Kerstin S Haring, Silvia Rossi, Alan R Wagner and Thomas Williams, 2020, "Where to Next? The Impact of COVID-19 on Human-Robot Interaction Research", ACM Transactions in Human-Robot Interaction, 10, (1), pp. 7

Jason Borenstein, Harshal P Mahajan, Alan R Wagner and Ayanna M Howard, 2020, "Trust and Pediatric Exoskeletons: A Comparative Study of Clinician and Parental Perspectives", IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society, 1, (2), pp. 83-88

David Atkinson, Douglas Burig, Marc Canellas and Alan R Wagner, 2020, "Autonomous Systems & Domestic Security", Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs, 7, (3), pp. 150-194

Alan R Wagner, Jason Borenstein and Ayanna M Howard, 2018, "Overtrust in the robotic age", Communications of the ACM, 61, (9), pp. 22-24

Jason Borenstein, Alan R Wagner and Ayanna M Howard, 2018, "Overtrust of Pediatric Healthcare Robots: A Preliminary Survey of Parent Perspectives", IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine: Special Issue on Socio-ethical Approaches to Robotics Development, 25, (1), pp. 46-54

Alan R Wagner, Paul Robinette and Ayanna M Howard, 2018, "Modeling the Human-Robot Trust Phenomenon: A Conceptual Framework based on Risk", ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, 8, (4), pp. 26:1-26:24

Paul Robinette, Alan R Wagner and Ayanna M Howard, 2017, "The Effect of Robot Performance on Human-Robot Trust in Time-Critical Situations", Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, 47, (4), pp. 425 - 436

Joe Lyons, Mathew Clark, Alan R Wagner and M Schuelke, 2016, "Certifiable Trust in Autonomous Systems: Making the Intractable Tangible", Artificial Intelligence Magazine, 38, (3), pp. 37-49

Alan R Wagner, 2015, "Robots That Stereotype: Creating and Using Categories of People for Human-Robot Interaction", Journal of Human-Robot Interaction, 4, (2), pp. 97–124

Alan R Wagner and Paul Robinette, 2015, "Towards Robots that Trust: Human Subject Validation of the Situational Conditions for Trust", Interaction studies, 16, (1), pp. 89–117

Ronald Craig Arkin, Patrick Ulam and Alan R Wagner, 2012, "Moral Decision Making in Autonomous Systems: Enforcement, Moral Emotions, Dignity, Trust, and Deception", Proceedings of the IEEE, 100, (3), pp. 571–589

Alan R Wagner and Ronald C Arkin, 2011, "Acting Deceptively: Providing Robots with the Capacity for Deception", International Journal of Social Robotics, 3, (1), pp. 5–26

Alan R Wagner and Ronald C Arkin, 2008, "Analyzing Social Situations for Human–Robot Interaction", Interaction Studies, 9, (2), pp. 277–300

Conference Proceedings

Chris McClurg and Alan R Wagner, 2026, "Studying the Effects of Robot Distraction on School Shooter Behavior Using Virtual Reality", Bremen, Germany (9.8% Acceptance Rate)., pp. 8

Chris McClurg and Alan R Wagner, 2026, "Developing a Discrete-Event Simulator of School Shooter Behavior from VR", Orlando, FL, pp. 5

Sa’arah Alhouti and Alan R Wagner, 2026, "From Algorithm to Empathy: Advancing CSR Authenticity Through AI", Kuwait City, Kuwait, pp. 5

Colin Holbrook and Alan R Wagner, 2025, "Human-Aligned AI Must Counter Overtrust", Santa Clara, CA, pp. 1239-1242

Chris McClurg and Alan R Wagner, 2025, "Using Virtual Reality to Simulate and Study the Movements of School Shooters", Madrid, Spain (51% Acceptance Rate), pp. 1-13

Muhammad Junayed Hasan Zahed, Bianca Gonzalez, Jack Langelaan and Alan R Wagner, 2025, "Characterizing Observer Sense of Safety When Witnessing Complex Aircraft Trajectories", Las Vegas, NV, pp. 8

Kantwon Rogers, Reiden John Allen Webber, Geronimo Gorostiaga Zubizarreta, Arthur Melo-Cruz, Shengkang Chen, Ronald C Arkin, Jason Borenstein and Alan Wagner, 2024, "What Should a Robot Do? Comparing Human and Large Language Model Recommendations for Robot Deception", Boulder, CO, pp. 4

Vidullan Surendran and Alan R Wagner, 2023, "Show Me What to Pick: Pointing Versus Spatial Gestures for Conveying Intent", Busan, Republic of Korea, pp. 77-84

Christopher McClurg, Ali Ayub, Harsh Tyagi, Sarah Rajtmajer and Alan R Wagner, 2023, "Active Class Selection for Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning", Montreal, Canada (26% Acceptance Rate), pp. 811-827

Zhenyuan Yuan, Tongjia Zheng, Mollik Nayyar, Alan R Wagner, Hai Lin and Minghui Zhu, 2023, "Multi-Robot-Assisted Human Crowd Control for Emergency Evacuation: A Stabilization Approach", San Diego, CA (68.7% Acceptance Rate), pp. 4051-4056

Lamar Cooley-Russ, Kalyani Lakkanige, Sumit Kumar, Raj Ratn Pranesh, Sarah Rajtmajer and Alan R Wagner, 2023, "A Testbed for Cognitively Plausibly Bartering Agents", Munich, Germany, pp. 398-400

Jason Borenstein, Arthur Melo-Cruz, Alan R Wagner and Ronald Arkin, 2023, "From HHI to HRI: Which Facets of Ethical Decision-Making Should Inform a Robot?", Chicago, IL, pp. 3

Bianca Gonzalez, Junayed Muhammed Zahed, Alan R Wagner and Jack Langelaan, 2023, "Scalable Collision Avoidance in High-Density Airspaces", West Palm Beach, FL, pp. 8

Tyler Brett Stephens and Alan R Wagner, 2023, "Demonstration and Evaluation of an Automated Construction System for Assembling a Landing Pad and Blast Wall", National Harbor, MD, pp. 18

Brett Sheeran, Alan R Wagner, Colin Holbrook and Daniel Holman, 2023, "Robot Guided Emergency Evacuation from a Simulated Space Station", National Harbor, MD, pp. 13

Tongjia Zheng, Zhenyuan Yuan, Mollik Nayyar, Alan R Wagner, Minghui Zhu and Hai Lin, 2022, "Multi-Robot Assisted Human Crowd Evacuation Using Navigation Velocity Fields", Cancún, Mexico (63.5% Acceptance Rate), pp. 2061-2066

Maryam Zare, Alan R Wagner and Rebecca Passonneau, 2022, "A POMDP Dialogue Policy with 3-way Grounding and Adaptive Sensing for Learning Through Communication", Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, pp. 6767-6780

Christopher McClurg, Alan R Wagner and Sarah Rajtmajer, 2022, "Construal Level Theory as a Means for Anticipating Human-Robot Interactions", Arlington, VA, pp. 15

Vidullan Surendran, Arthur Melo-Cruz, Alan R Wagner, Jason Borenstein, Ronald C Arkin and Shengkang Chen, 2022, "Informing a Robot Ethics Architecture Through Folk and Expert Morality", Seoul, South Korea, pp. 12

Shengkang Chen, Ronald C Arkin, Jason Borenstein, Alan R Wagner and Arthur Melo-Cruz, 2022, "Case-based Robotics Architecture with Multiple Underlying Ethical Frameworks", Seoul, South Korea, pp. 6

Austin Dennis McClymonds, Somayeh Asadi, Robert Leicht and Alan R Wagner, 2022, "Information Exchange for Supporting BIM to Robotic Construction", Arlington, VA, pp. 839-848

Jason Borenstein, Ronald C Arkin and Alan R Wagner, 2022, "A Metaethical Reflection: The Ethics of Embedding Ethics into Robots", Held Virtually, pp. 2

Mollik Nayyar and Alan R Wagner, 2022, "Modeling Evacuee Behavior for Robot-Guided Emergency Evacuation", Held Virtually, pp. 4

Himavanth Jois and Alan R Wagner, 2022, "Castigation by Robot: Should Robots be Allowed to Punish Us?", Mexico City, Mexico, pp. 163–175

Shengkang Chen, Vidullan Surendran, Alan R Wagner, Jason Borenstein and Ronald C Arkin, 2022, "Toward Ethical Robotic Behavior in Human-Robot Interaction Scenarios", Held Virtually, pp. 2

Tyler Stephens, Austin McClymonds, Rob Leicht and Alan R Wagner, 2022, "Automated Material Selection Based on Detected Construction Progress", Held Virtually, pp. 406-413

Vidullan Surendran, Kasra Mokhtari and Alan R Wagner, 2021, "Your Robot is Watching 2: Using Emotion Features to Predict the Intent to Deceive", Held Virtually (64.0% Acceptance Rate), pp. 447-453

Vidullan Surendran and Alan R Wagner, 2021, "Can’t Hide Your Disappointment: Using Human Pose and Facial Cues for Intent Prediction in a Target Game", Held Virtually, pp. 8

Ali Ayub, Helen Hu, Guangwei Zhou, Carter Fendley, Crystal Ramsay, Kathy Lou Jackson and Alan R Wagner, 2021, "College Students Cheating on a Collaborative Task with a Social Robot: The Roles of Cheating Exposure and Task Clarity", Held Virtually (64.0% Acceptance Rate), pp. 229-235

Mollik Nayyar and Alan R Wagner, 2021, "Aiding Emergency Evacuations Using Obstacle-Aware Path Clearing", Held Virtually, pp. 6

Ali Ayub and Alan R Wagner, 2021, "EEC: Learning to Encode and Regenerate Images for Continual Learning", Held Virtually (28.7% Acceptance Rate), pp. 16

Ali Ayub and Alan R Wagner, 2021, "Continual Learning of Visual Concepts for Robots Through Limited Supervision", Held Virtually (37.5% Acceptance Rate), pp. 610–612

Ali Ayub and Alan R Wagner, 2021, "F-SIOL-330: A Robotic Dataset and Benchmark for Few-Shot Incremental Object Learning", Held Virtually (48.0% Acceptance Rate), pp. 7

Mollik Nayyar, Zachary Zoloty, Ciera McFarland and Alan R Wagner, 2020, "Exploring the Effect of Explanations during Robot-Guided Emergency Evacuation", Held Virtually (25% Acceptance rate for oral presentations), pp. 13-22

Ali Ayub and Alan R Wagner, 2020, "What Am I Allowed to do Here? Online Learning of Context-Specific Norms by Pepper", Held Virtually (25% acceptance for oral presentation), pp. 220-231

Ali Ayub and Alan R Wagner, 2020, "Teach Me What You Want to Play: Learning Variants of Connect Four through Human-Robot Interaction", Held Virtually (55% Acceptance Rate), pp. 502-515

Ali Ayub and Alan R Wagner, 2020, "Tell me What This Is: Few-Shot Incremental Object Learning by a Robot", Held Virtually (47% Acceptance Rate), pp. 8344-8350

Kasra Mokhtari, Kendra Lang and Alan R Wagner, 2020, "Don't Go That Way! Risk-Aware Decision Making for Autonomous Vehicles", Held Virtually (25% Acceptance rate for oral presentations), pp. 284-295

Kasra Mokhtari, Vidullan Surendran, Ali Ayub and Alan R Wagner, 2020, "Pedestrian Density Based Path Recognition and Prediction for Autonomous Vehicles", Naples, Italy, pp. 517-524

Ali Ayub and Alan R Wagner, 2020, "Centroid Based Concept Learning for RGB-D Indoor Scene Classification", Held Virtually (29.1 % Acceptance Rate), pp. 13

Ali Ayub and Alan R Wagner, 2020, "Online Learning of Objects Through Curiosity-Driven Active Learning", Naples, Italy, pp. 5

Ali Ayub and Alan R Wagner, 2020, "Storing Encoded Episodes as Concepts for Continual Learning", Vienna, Austria, pp. 7

Ali Ayub and Alan R Wagner, 2020, "Cognitively-Inspired Model for Incremental Learning Using a Few Examples", Seattle, WA, pp. 222-232

Maryam Zare, Ali Ayub, Aishan Liu, Sweekar Sudhakara, Alan R Wagner and Rebecca Passonneau, 2020, "Dialogue Policies for Learning Board Games Through Multimodal Communication", Held Virtually (39% Acceptance Rate), pp. 339-351

Matthew Rhudy, Scott Dolan and Alan R Wagner, 2020, "A Pilot Study on Monitoring Airline Pilot Stress Levels", Orlando, FL, pp. 6

Kasra Mokhtari and Alan R Wagner, 2020, "The Pedestrian Patterns Dataset", Washington, DC, pp. 6

Vidullan Surendran and Alan R Wagner, 2019, "Your Robot is Watching: Using Surface Cues to Evaluate the Trustworthiness of Human Actions", New Delhi, India (54% Acceptance Rate), pp. 8

Mollik Nayyar and Alan R Wagner, 2019, "Effective Robot Evacuation Strategies in Emergencies", New Delhi, India (54% Acceptance Rate), pp. 6

Maryam Zare, Ali Ayub, Alan R Wagner and Rebecca Passonneau, 2019, "Show Me How to Win: A Robot that Uses Dialog Management to Learn from Demonstrations", San Luis Obispo, CA, pp. 1-7

Ronald C Arkin, Jason Borenstein and Alan R Wagner, 2019, "Competing Ethical Frameworks Mediated by Moral Emotions in HRI: Motivations, Background, and Approach", London, United Kingdom, pp. 8

Sagar Lakhmani, Jacob Langelaan and Alan R Wagner, 2018, "Human-Intuitable Collision Avoidance for Autonomous and Semi-Autonomous Aerial Vehicles", Phoenix, AZ, pp. 6

Sachin Hagaribommanahalli and Alan R Wagner, 2018, "Initial Steps Towards Quadcopter-based Brick Placement for Construction", Phoenix, AZ, pp. 6

Alan R Wagner, 2018, "An Autonomous Architecture that Protects the Right to Privacy", New Orleans, LA. (34% Acceptance Rate), pp. 8

Mollik Nayyar and Alan R Wagner, 2018, "When Should a Robot Apologize? Understanding how Timing Affects Human-Robot Trust Repair", Qingdao, China (58% Acceptance Rate), pp. 265-274

Ali Ayub and Alan R Wagner, 2018, "Learning to Win Games in a Few Examples: Using Game-Theory and Demonstrations to Learn the Win Conditions of a Connect Four Game", Qingdao, China (58% Acceptance Rate), pp. 349-358

Alan R Wagner and Mollik Nayyar, 2017, "A Theoretical Conceptualization of Overtrust", Los Angeles, CA, pp. 261-269

Alan R Wagner, 2016, "Using Games to Learn Games: Game-Theory Representations as a Source for Guided Social Learning", Kansas City, MO (92% Acceptance Rate), pp. 42–51

Paul Robinette, Alan R Wagner and Ayanna M Howard, 2016, "Assessment of Robot to Human Instruction Conveyance Modalities Across Virtual, Remote and Physical Robot Presence", New York, NY (47% Acceptance Rate), pp. 1044–1050

Paul Robinette, Wenchen Li, Robert Allen, Ayanna M Howard and Alan R Wagner, 2016, "Overtrust of Robots in Emergency Evacuation Scenarios", Christchurch, New Zealand (24.8% Acceptance Rate), pp. 101–108

Zsolt Kira, Wenchen Li, Robert Allen and Alan R Wagner, 2016, "Leveraging Deep Learning for Spatio-Temporal Understanding of Everyday Environments", New York, NY, pp. 6

Alan R Wagner, 2015, "The Most Intelligent Robots Are Those That Exaggerate: Examining Robot Exaggeration", Washington, DC, pp. 51-57

Paul Robinette, Ayanna M Howard and Alan R Wagner, 2015, "Timing is Key for Robot Trust Repair", Paris, France (56% Acceptance Rate), pp. 574-583

Jigar Doshi, Zsolt Kira and Alan R Wagner, 2015, "From Deep Learning to Episodic Memories: Creating Categories of Visual Experiences", Atlanta, GA, pp. 15

Zsolt Kira, Alan R Wagner, Chris Kennedy, Jason Zutty and Grady Tuell, 2015, "STAC: a Comprehensive Sensor Fusion Model for Scene Characterization", Article 949804, Baltimore, MD

Paul Robinette, Alan R Wagner and Ayanna M Howard, 2014, "Assessment of Robot Guidance Modalities Conveying Instructions to Humans in Emergency Situations", Edinburgh, United Kingdom (47% Acceptance Rate), pp. 1043–1049

Paul Robinette, Alan R Wagner and Ayanna M Howard, 2014, "Modeling Human-Robot Trust in Emergencies", Palo Alto, CA, pp. 6

Alan R Wagner and Jigar Doshi, 2013, "Who, How, Where: Using Exemplars to Learn Social Concepts", Bristol, United Kingdom. (51% Acceptance Rate), pp. 481–490

Alan R Wagner, 2013, "Developing Robots that Recognize When They Are Being Trusted.", Palo Alto, CA, pp. 84-89

Paul Robinette, Alan R Wagner and Ayanna M Howard, 2013, "Building and Maintaining Trust Between Humans and Guidance Robots in an Emergency", Palo Alto, CA, pp. 78-83

Willie Barnett, Alan R Wagner and Kathleen Ketting, 2013, "Social Robots and Older Adults: Some Ethical Concerns for Researchers", Wrexham, United Kingdom, pp. 364-366

David Atkinson, Peter Hancock, Robert R Hoffman, John D Lee, Ericka Rovira, Charlene Stokes and Alan R Wagner, 2012, "Trust in Computers and Robots: The Uses and Boundaries of the Analogy to Interpersonal Trust", Boston, MA, pp. 303–307

Alan R Wagner, 2012, "The Impact of Stereotyping Errors on a Robot’s Social Development", San Diego, CA, pp. 1–6

Alan R Wagner, 2012, "Using Cluster-Based Stereotyping to Foster Human-Robot Cooperation", Vilamoura, Portugal (39% Acceptance Rate), pp. 1615–1622

Alan R Wagner and Ronald C Arkin, 2011, "Recognizing Situations that Demand Trust", Atlanta, GA, pp. 7–14

Alan R Wagner, 2011, "Outcome Matrix Based Phrase Selection", Washington, DC, pp. 41-46

Alan R Wagner and Ronald C Arkin, 2009, "Robot Deception: Recognizing When a Robot Should Deceive", Daejeon, Korea, pp. 46–54

Alan R Wagner, 2009, "Creating and Using Matrix Representations of Social Interaction", San Diego, CA (19% Acceptance Rate), pp. 125–132

Alan R Wagner, 2008, "A Representation for Interaction", Pasadena, CA, pp. 13-20

Patrick Ulam, Yoichiro Endo, Alan R Wagner and Ronald C Arkin, 2007, "Integrated Mission Specification and Task Allocation for Robot Teams-Design and Implementation", Rome, Italy (43% Acceptance Rate), pp. 4428–4435

Alan R Wagner and Ronald C Arkin, 2006, "A Framework for Situation-Based Social Interaction", Hatfield, United Kingdom, pp. 291–297

Alan R Wagner, Yoichiro Endo, Patrick Ulam and Ronald C Arkin, 2006, "Multi-Robot User Interface Modeling", Minneapolis, MN, pp. 237–248

Alan R Wagner and Ronald C Arkin, 2004, "Multi-Robot Communication-Sensitive Reconnaissance", New Orleans, LA, pp. 4674–4681

Alan R Wagner and Ronald C Arkin, 2003, "Internalized Plans for Communication-Sensitive Robot Team Behaviors", Las Vegas, NV, pp. 2480–2487

• June 2021 - May 2027, "CAREER: No Time to Explain: Developing Robots that Actively Prevent Overtrust during Emergencies," (Sponsor: National Science Foundation).

• February 2019 - January 2024, "S&AS: INT: COLLAB: Do the Right Thing: Competing Ethical Frameworks Mediated by Moral Emotions in Human Robot Interaction," (Sponsor: National Science Foundation).

• October 2019 - September 2024, "FW-HTF-RM: Collaborative Research: Future of Construction Work at the Human-Technology Frontier," (Sponsor: National Science Foundation).

• September 2020 - September 2023, "Trust in Machine Agents Under Realistic Threat," (Sponsor: University of California at Merced).

• October 2018 - December 2023, "NRI: INT: COLLAB: Interactive and collaborative robot-assisted emergency evacuations," (Sponsor: National Science Foundation).

• Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award, National Science Foundation, 2021 - 2026

• Hartz Family Career Development Professorship in Engineering, Penn State University, 2017 - 2020

• Best Paper of 2018, ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS) Journal, 2018 - 2019

• US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, National Academy of Engineering, 2019

• Young Investigator Award, Air Force Office of Sponsored Research, 2013 - 2016

• Time Magazine’s Top 50 inventions of 2010 (#13), Time Magazine, 2010

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