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

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
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