News

A growing collection of my current and old news.

Dec. 22, 2025

My paper "The Roles of Fairness and Effectiveness in Promoting Legitimacy and Cooperation with Security Robotic Authority" has been accepted as a full paper at HRI 2026 (23% acceptance rate)! 🎉🎉

Aug. 18, 2025

I successfully passed my prelim milestone and officially advanced from Ph.D. student to Ph.D. candidate!

Jun. 1, 2025

Attended the Midwest Robotics Workshop this week and presented my work "Power in Security Robots: Exploring the Role of Social Power in Robot Acceptance and Trust". 🤖

Mar. 15, 2024

Attended the 19th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) in Boulder, Colorado and presented my paper. (It's actually my first in-person conference! 😄)

Nov. 22, 2023

My paper "Autonomy Acceptance Model (AAM): The Role of Autonomy and Risk in Security Robot Acceptance" was accepted for HRI 2024! 🤖️

Jun. 10, 2023

My paper "Human Security Robot Interaction and Anthropomorphism: An Examination of Pepper, RAMSEE, and Knightscope Robots" was accepted for RO-MAN 2023!

Apr. 27, 2023

Successfully defended my master's thesis and received my Master of Science degree in Information Science! 🎓

Feb. 1, 2023

Was accepted into the UMSI Ph.D. Program! ✨