CV

Education

Ph.D in Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan, 2025 (expected)
M.S. in Robotics, University of Michigan, 2021
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, 2019

Work experience

Summer 2024: Research Intern
- Honda Research Institute
- Duties includes: Inverting the Social Navigation Problem - generating trajectories for mobile robots that optimally nudge human trajectories in desired directions
- Supervisor: Kumar Akash

Skills

Python
- Numpy
- Pandas
- Pytorch
Unreal Engine
- C++
- Blueprints
Research
- Literature review
- Research writing
- Data analysis
- Human-subject testing

Publications

Identifying Worker Motion Through a Manufacturing Plant: A Finite Automaton Model

S. Yang et al., "Identifying Worker Motion Through a Manufacturing Plant: A Finite Automaton Model," 2024 33rd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN), Pasadena, CA, USA, 2024, pp. 1970-1977, doi: 10.1109/RO-MAN60168.2024.10731360.

Value alignment and trust in human-robot interaction: Insights from simulation and user study

Bhat, S., Lyons, J.B., Shi, C., Yang, X.J. (2024). Value Alignment and Trust in Human-Robot Interaction: Insights from Simulation and User Study. In: Vinjamuri, R. (eds) Discovering the Frontiers of Human-Robot Interaction. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-66656-8_3

Evaluating the impact of personalized value alignment in human-robot interaction Insights into trust and team performance outcomes

Shreyas Bhat, Joseph B. Lyons, Cong Shi, and X. Jessie Yang. 2024. Evaluating the Impact of Personalized Value Alignment in Human-Robot Interaction: Insights into Trust and Team Performance Outcomes. In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 32–41. https://doi.org/10.1145/3610977.3634921

Effect of Adapting to Human Preferences on Trust in Human-Robot Teaming

Bhat, S., Lyons, J. B., Shi, C., & Yang, X. J. (2024). Effect of Adapting to Human Preferences on Trust in Human-Robot Teaming. Proceedings of the AAAI Symposium Series, 2(1), 5-10. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaaiss.v2i1.27642

Clustering Trust Dynamics in a Human-Robot Sequential Decision-Making Task

S. Bhat, J. B. Lyons, C. Shi and X. J. Yang, "Clustering Trust Dynamics in a Human-Robot Sequential Decision-Making Task," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 8815-8822, Oct. 2022, doi: 10.1109/LRA.2022.3188902.

Clustering Trust Dynamics in a Human-Robot Sequential Decision-Making Task

Talks

Trustworthy Human-AGV Interaction

April 09, 2025

Talk at Lurie Engineering Building, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Identifying Worker Motion Through a Manufacturing Plant: A Finite Automaton Model

August 27, 2024

Talk at 2024 IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interactive Communication (ROMAN 2024), Pasadena, CA

I-ORCA – Implicitly Nudging Human Trajectories

August 22, 2024

Talk at Honda Research Institute, San Jose, CA, San Jose, CA

Enabling Effective Human-Robot Interaction via Trust-Driven Decision-Making

April 23, 2024

Talk at Engineering Student Government's 3-minute Thesis Competition, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Evaluating the impact of personalized value alignment in human-robot interaction: Insights into trust and team performance outcomes

March 13, 2024

Talk at 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2024), Boulder, CO