Generate a tailored SOP for Dr. Marynel Vázquez. Improve your application with a focused, well-structured draft.
Marynel Vázquez is a computer scientist and roboticist whose research focuses on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), particularly in multi-party settings. Her work investigates social group phenomena in HRI such as spatial patterns of behavior and group social influence. She aims to advance perception and decision-making algorithms to enable autonomous, socially-aware robot behavior in multi-party contexts. A key aspect of her recent research involves abstracting human-robot interactions into graphs, allowing robots to reason about individual relationships and group factors simultaneously. Marynel enjoys building systems that bring her concepts to life, utilizing new robotic infrastructures to facilitate HRI research. Her interdisciplinary research combines elements from computer science, especially artificial intelligence, behavioral science, and design.
Administered via the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS). GRE General is optional for PhD.