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New Haven, CT 06511-8937
EDUCATION
Yale University - Expected Dec 2025
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Computer Science
Brigham Young University - 2018
B.S. in Applied and Computational Mathematics, cum laude
PUBLICATIONS
2024 Thompson, S., Lew, S., Phanse, R., Huang, A., Stanish, E., Li, Y., and Vázquez, M. 2024. Intent to Interact with a Public Robot: The People Approaching Robots Database (PAR-D). In Proceedings of the 2024 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction.
2024 Thompson, S., Narcomey, A., Lew, A., and Vázquez, M. 2024. Shutter: A Low-Cost and Flexible Social Robot Platform for In-the-Wild Deployments. In Companion of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction.
2021 Thompson, S., Gupta, A., Gupta, A. W., Chen, A., & Vázquez, M. (2021, October). Conversational Group Detection with Graph Neural Networks. In Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (pp. 248-252).
2021 Tsoi, N., Connolly, J., Adéníran, E., Hansen, A., Pineda, K. T., Adamson, T., ... & Scassellati, B. (2021, March). Challenges Deploying Robots During a Pandemic: An Effort to Fight Social Isolation Among Children. In Proceedings of the 2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 234-242).
2020 Swofford, M., Peruzzi, J., Tsoi, N., Thompson, S., Martín-Martín, R., Savarese, S., & Vázquez, M. (2020). Improving Social Awareness Through DANTE: Deep Affinity Network for Clustering Conversational Interactants. In Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 4(CSCW1), 1-23.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2019 - 2021 Yale Interactive Machines Group
- Researching methods of multimodal robot behavior selection for human-robot interaction in public settings
- Built robot photographer as a platform for public robot deployments used by 5 current Ph.D. students
- Researched methods for predicting human intent to interact with a robot in public
- Improved models for detecting human social groups in public using graph neural networks
- Collaborated with researchers from KTH, Cornell, Stanford, Northwestern, Kyoto University, and Princeton
- Mentored 12 undergraduate students and 3 graduate students on projects ranging from robot greeting behavior selection strategies to developing remote robot monitoring tools to human emotion recognition
2021-2022 Argo A.I.
- Designed algorithm to rank importance of road agents in autonomous driving scenarios
- Analyzed behavior of planning and perception models on Argoverse dataset to understand how different architecture influenced model attention to other agent positions and behavior
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Yale University - Teaching Fellow
2024 Human-Computer Interaction
2021 Intelligent Robotics
2020 Building Interactive Machines
Brigham Young University - Teaching Assistant
2016 Honors Linear Algebra
AWARDS & HONORS
2024 HRI 2024 - Honorable Mention, Best Demo
2023 Yale Computer Science Departmental Service Award
2014 Brigham Young Full Tuition Academic Scholarship
2015 Phi Eta Sigma – Brigham Young University Academic Honor Society
INVITED TALKS
2024 Brigham Young University
2020 Brigham Young University