Suresh Kumaar Jayaraman

Robotics Institute . Carnegie Mellon University . Postdoctoral researcher at TBD, HARP, and RASL

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My research aims to develop autonomous systems that can seamlessly integrate into complex, human-centric environments. Motivated by the critical need for mutual understanding between humans and autonomous systems, my work focuses on two key thrusts:

  • Modeling human behavior to enable robots to interpret human intentions, actions, and mental states, ensuring safe and effective interactions in dynamic, real-world environments.
  • Designing explainable decision-making frameworks that make autonomous systems’ behavior intuitive and transparent to human users, fostering trust and collaboration in both dyadic and group settings.

In my current postdoc at CMU, I examine how robots should communicate their decision-making process (abstracted as reward function weights) with a group of people, particularly in a human-robot team setting to improve learning, trust, and team performance.

Education

  • Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at UM, Ann Arbor, in 2021.
  • M.S. in Mechanical Engineering at UM, Ann Arbor, in 2018.
  • B.E. in Production Engineering at Anna University , India in 2013.

Research Interests

human behavior modeling, explainable decision-making, group human-AI/robot interactions, trust in AI/robots, interaction-aware control, human-AI/robot communication, human-AI/robot teaming, socially intelligent agents

news

Jan 15, 2016 A simple inline announcement with Markdown emoji! :sparkles: :smile:
Nov 07, 2015 A long announcement with details
Oct 22, 2015 A simple inline announcement.

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selected publications

  1. Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete?
    A. Einstein*†B. Podolsky*, and N. Rosen*
    Phys. Rev., New Jersey. More Information can be found here , May 1935