SIGNAL Lab Ph.D. student Nada Alalyani and I have a new publication that will be appearing at the Bridging HCI and NLP workshop at the EACL conference in April! Embodied Multimodal Agents to Bridge the Understanding Gap argues that embodied multimodal agents such as virtual avatars and robots play an...

Our demo, Situational Awareness in Human Computer Interaction: Diana’s World has won the best demo award at ICAT-EGVE (International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence & Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments), an ACM conference! Our paper is here and our demo video can be viewed here.

Traditionally, computer science faculty at CSU give rapid-fire research presentations at the beginning of the fall semester to present themselves to students and discuss research opportunities. Due to the Covid situation pushing everything online, the seminar format is being flipped this year, with prerecorded videos being offered followed by Q+A...

Today I presented a long paper, “Neurosymbolic AI for Situated Language Understanding” at the Advances in Cognitive Systems conference, held virtually and hosted by the Palo Alto Research Center.

I’m pleased to announce the formation of my lab here at Colorado State, the Situated Grounding and Natural Language Lab. As the primary NLP group in the CSU Computer Science department, we aim to produce cutting-edge AI research in language processing and understanding that’s grounded in linguistic knowledge and multimodality,...