I am a 3rd-year Biomedical Engineering student working at SIRRL. My passion lies in exploring the intersections of Human-Robot Collaboration, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Robotics, and Decision-Making within social robotics.
I am a 3rd year Biomedical Engineering Student working as an Undergraduate Research Assistant at SIRRLL. My interests lie in human-robotic interactions, humanoid robotics, machine learning, and natural language processing. My assistance in the lab includes vision-based object detection for autonomous pick-and-place robotic applications utilizing the Fetch robot.
Kavya Arun is a fourth-year Systems Design Engineering student interested in robotics, human-computer interactions, and the intersection of hardware and software engineering. She will be working alongside Soomin on developing therapeutic games for the QT robot which children with speech disabilities will use.
Sharanya Gupta is a third-year Computer Engineering student working as an Undergraduate Research Assistant at the SIRRL. He has an interest in machine learning and artificial intelligence along with computer vision. Within SIRRL he focuses on developing methods for continual learning for socially intelligent human-robot interactions.
I am a third-year Computer Science student at the University of Waterloo passionate about using technology for social good. At SIRRL, I am researching the application of social robots as mental health coaches to enhance human-computer interaction in therapeutic contexts.
Jomills Jose Anand is a third-year Software Engineering student working as an Undergraduate Research Assistant in SIRRL. He’s interested in the space of robotics, autonomous vehicles, and scientific computing. Within SIRRL, he will be working with the Furhat robots to research robot-human interactions.
Garrett Miller-Junk is in his fourth year of Mechatronics Engineering undergrad at the University of Waterloo. He is interested in mobile robotics and autonomous control systems. Currently, he is working in the SIRRL Lab, focussing on computer vision solutions to assist robots with identifying and new objects that they see.
Ella Uppal is a third-year Computer Engineering student at the University of Waterloo with a keen interest in the intersection of machine learning and embedded systems. Within SIRRL, she focuses on developing machine learning solutions for robots to support adults in long-term care and assisted living home environments.