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Marynel Vázquez is a professor at Yale Engineering with a focus on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), particularly in multi-party settings. Her research investigates social group phenomena in HRI, such as spatial patterns of behavior and social influence within groups. The aim of her work is to advance perception and decision-making algorithms that enable autonomous, socially aware robot behavior in complex social scenarios. A key idea driving her recent work involves abstracting human-robot interactions into graphs, allowing robots to simultaneously reason about individual and group relationship factors. In addition to her academic research, Marynel enjoys building systems that demonstrate her ideas in practice, and she advocates for new robotic infrastructures to facilitate HRI research. Her interdisciplinary approach combines elements of computer science, particularly artificial intelligence, with behavioral science and design.
Administered via the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS). GRE General is optional for PhD.