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Sonia Chernova is affiliated with the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on computer science with a strong emphasis on artificial intelligence and robotics. Over the course of their career, they have contributed significantly to several subfields including artificial intelligence, computer vision and pattern recognition, control and systems engineering, computer networks and communications, and social psychology.

Their recent publications include the following papers:

  • Rearrangement: A Challenge for Embodied AI (2020), arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Explainable Activity Recognition for Smart Home Systems (2023), ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems
  • Bootstrapping Human Activity Recognition Systems for Smart Homes from Scratch (2022), Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
  • GRSTAPS: Graphically Recursive Simultaneous Task Allocation, Planning, and Scheduling (2021), The International Journal of Robotics Research
  • D-ITAGS: A Dynamic Interleaved Approach to Resilient Task Allocation, Scheduling, and Motion Planning (2023), IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Frequent co-authors with whom Sonia Chernova has collaborated include:

  • Harish Ravichandar
  • Devleena Das
  • Angel Daruna
  • Weiyu Liu
  • Glen Neville

The main venues where their work is published are:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
  • 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
  • Frontiers in Robotics and AI
  • ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems

Sonia Chernova's research covers a diverse range of main topics including:

  • Reinforcement Learning in Robotics
  • Robot Manipulation and Learning
  • Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
  • Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems
  • Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
  • AI-based Problem Solving and Planning
  • Topic Modeling

Best Publications

  • A survey of robot learning from demonstration

    Brenna D. Argall;Sonia Chernova;Manuela Veloso;Brett Browning

  • Recent Advances in Robot Learning from Demonstration

    Harish Ravichandar;Athanasios S. Polydoros;Sonia Chernova;Aude Billard

  • Interactive policy learning through confidence-based autonomy

    Sonia Chernova;Manuela Veloso

  • Robot Learning from Human Teachers

    Sonia Chernova;Andrea L. Thomaz

  • Confidence-based policy learning from demonstration using Gaussian mixture models

    Sonia Chernova;Manuela Veloso

  • An evolutionary approach to gait learning for four-legged robots

    S. Chernova;M. Veloso

  • Reinforcement learning from demonstration through shaping

    Tim Brys;Anna Harutyunyan;Halit Bener Suay;Sonia Chernova

  • Sim2Real Predictivity: Does Evaluation in Simulation Predict Real-World Performance?

    Abhishek Kadian;Joanne Truong;Aaron Gokaslan;Alexander Clegg

  • Integrating reinforcement learning with human demonstrations of varying ability

    Matthew E. Taylor;Halit Bener Suay;Sonia Chernova

  • Effect of human guidance and state space size on Interactive Reinforcement Learning

    Halit Bener Suay;Sonia Chernova

  • Rearrangement: A Challenge for Embodied AI.

    Dhruv Batra;Angel X. Chang;Sonia Chernova;Andrew J. Davison

  • Robot Learning from Human Teachers

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  • Crowdsourcing human-robot interaction: new methods and system evaluation in a public environment

    Cynthia Breazeal;Nick DePalma;Jeff Orkin;Sonia Chernova

  • Interactive Hierarchical Task Learning from a Single Demonstration

    Anahita Mohseni-Kabir;Charles Rich;Sonia Chernova;Candace L. Sidner

  • Robot Web Tools: Efficient messaging for cloud robotics

    Russell Toris;Julius Kammerl;David V. Lu;Jihoon Lee

  • Explainable AI for Robot Failures: Generating Explanations that Improve User Assistance in Fault Recovery

    Devleena Das;Siddhartha Banerjee;Sonia Chernova

  • The robot management system: a framework for conducting human-robot interaction studies through crowdsourcing

    Russell Toris;David Kent;Sonia Chernova

  • Learning from Demonstration for Shaping through Inverse Reinforcement Learning

    Halit Bener Suay;Tim Brys;Matthew E. Taylor;Sonia Chernova

  • Towards Robust Skill Generalization: Unifying Learning from Demonstration and Motion Planning.

    Muhammad Asif Rana;Mustafa Mukadam;Seyed Reza Ahmadzadeh;Sonia Chernova

  • Mobile human-robot teaming with environmental tolerance

    Matthew M. Loper;Nathan P. Koenig;Sonia H. Chernova;Chris V. Jones

  • Crowdsourcing human-robot interaction: Application from virtual to physical worlds

    Sonia Chernova;Nick DePalma;Elisabeth Morant;Cynthia Breazeal

  • Multi-thresholded approach to demonstration selection for interactive robot learning

    Sonia Chernova;Manuela Veloso

  • A Comparison of Remote Robot Teleoperation Interfaces for General Object Manipulation

    David Kent;Carl Saldanha;Sonia Chernova

Frequent Co-Authors

Manuela Veloso
Manuela Veloso Carnegie Mellon University
Andrea L. Thomaz
Andrea L. Thomaz The University of Texas at Austin
Charles Rich
Charles Rich Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Dhruv Batra
Dhruv Batra Georgia Institute of Technology
Charles C. Kemp
Charles C. Kemp Georgia Institute of Technology
Byron Boots
Byron Boots University of Washington
Robert W. Lindeman
Robert W. Lindeman University of Canterbury
Manolis Savva
Manolis Savva Simon Fraser University
Stefan Lee
Stefan Lee Oregon State University

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