
ABOUT ME
I am currently a postdoctoral fellow working at the Chair of Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence at University of Augsburg with Elisabeth André.
I did my PhD at the Computer Human Interaction for Learning and Instruction lab at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland with Pierre Dillenbourg and Barbara Bruno. During my PhD, I was also an EU ITN Horizon 2020 Marie Curie fellow at ANIMATAS under which I was a visiting scholar at the Sorbonne University, Paris, France, working with Mohammed Chetouani. I received my masters degree, under the Korean Government Scholarship Program (KGSP), from KAIST, Republic of Korea
. Previously, I completed my bachelor’s degree at NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences in Pakistan
.
My research interests broadly include human-machine interaction, social human-robot interaction, engagement modeling, multimodal human behavioral analysis, and machine learning applied in the fields of education and health care.
“While it may seem small, the ripple effects of small things is extraordinary”
LATEST STORIES
- Selected as a Rising Woman Star in Social Robotics at 2025 International Conference on Social Robotics + AI
- Launched a new masters course on Human-Robot Interaction (SS 2025), CS Department, University of Augsburg, Germany
- Special Issue published on Advances in Robots for Learning in Frontiers Robotics and AI, Feb 2025.
- Presented our work on productive engagement for HRI/HCI and role-playing conversational robots at the first German Robotics Conference, March 2025.
- Paper at HRI 2025: What Do the Face and Voice Reveal? Investigating Trust Dynamics During Human-Robot Interaction
- Paper in Frontiers in Robotics and AI: Social robots as skilled ignorant peers for supporting learning
- Paper at HAI 2024: Beyond Pretend-Reality Dualism: Frame Analysis of LLM-powered Role Play with Social Agents
- Organized workshops at RO-MAN 2024 on Trends in Socially Assistive Robots and Weighing the benefits of Autonomous Robot personalisation
- Paper at RO-MAN 2024: Evaluating Gender Ambiguity, Novelty and Anthropomorphism in Humming and Talking Voices for Robots
- Paper at CUI 2024: Using Large Language Models for Robot-Assisted Therapeutic Role-Play: Factuality is not enough!
- Special Recognition for Outstanding Reviews for HRI 2024 Main Track
- Paper at LAK’24: Does Difficulty even Matter? Investigating Difficulty Adjustment and Practice Behavior in an Open-Ended Learning Task.
- My PhD thesis got nominated by the distinction committee at the Doctoral School of Robotics, Control, and Intelligent Systems (EDRS) at my alma mater EPFL for the 2023 EDRS PhD Distinction
- Our paper won the RSJ Research Pioneering Award and was also a Best Paper Award Finalist at RO-MAN 2023
- Organized a one day Workshop on Latest Advances in Diversifying Artificial Intelligence at University of Augsburg
- Organized RO-MAN 2023 workshop on Robots for Learning: AI to power robots
- Gave an invited keynote at RO-MAN 2023 workshop on Multidisciplinary Perspectives on COntext-aware embodied Spoken Interactions