Subgroup 01 | Participants
Steve Jones (co-chair)
| University of Illinois System, Urbana-Champaign (USA)
Shelly Bagchi (co-chair)
| Electrical Engineer, US National Institute of Standards and Technology (USA), Website: https://www.nist.gov/people/shelly-bagchi
Shelly Bagchi is an Electrical Engineer at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Shelly is the Project Lead for the Digital Twins and Emerging Technology for SMEs Project within the Measurement Science for Manufacturing Robotics Program at NIST. Her research interests are in human-robot interaction, replicability & reproducibility, and augmented reality. Shelly chairs the IEEE Standards Group P3108, Recommended Practice for Human-Robot Interaction Design of Human Subject Studies, and is the secretary for IEEE P3107, Standard Terminology for Human-Robot Interaction. She serves as a volunteer organizer for several events, including the International Symposium on Technological Advances in Human-Robot Interaction (tahri.org) and the annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (humanrobotinteraction.org).
Snehesh Shrestha
| UMD PhD Candidate/ NIST PREP Researcher (USA) Website: https://www.Snehesh.com
Snehesh Shrestha is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Maryland College Park. He works in the Perception and Robotics Group (PRG) lab in the Department of Computer Science under the guidance of Prof. Yiannis Aloimonos (CS), Dr. Cornelia Fermüller (UMAICS), Dr. Ge Gao (INFO), and Dr. Irina Muresanu (School of Music). His research is at the intersection of robotics, artificial intelligence, human factors, arts, and culture. He is interested in multidisciplinary research aimed at building rich and intuitive experiences that ‘amplify human abilities, empowering people and ensuring human control.’ His recent work includes natural repair mechanisms in HRI and AI-empowered music education.