Ethical AI

A National Science Foundation Research Traineeship Program

Publications

Faculty
NRT Fellows

Selected Faculty Publications

Junfeng Jiao, PhD

  • Morgenstein, K., Jiao, J., Sentis, L., (2023). What Goes Bump in the Night: Learning Tactile Control for Vision-Occluded Crowd Navigation. 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
  • Hart, J., Hauser, E., Biswas, J., Baker, S., Jiao, J. Sentis, L., (2022).  Longitudinal Social Impacts of HRI over Long-Term Deployments. 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3523760.3523997
  • Morgenstein, K., Jiao, J., Sentis, L., (2023). Learning Contact-based Navigation in Crowds, 2nd Workshop onHuman-Interactive Robot Learning (HIRL 2023) at ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI).
  • Gonzalez, C., Lee, S., Montano, F., Ortega, S., Kang, D., Jaiswal, M., Jiao, J., Sentis, L., (2023). Design of a Person-Carrying Robot for Contact Compliant Navigation, 2023 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC 2023).
  • Chonkar, P., Hemkumar, G., Wang, H., Dua,D., Gupta, S., Chan, Y., Hart, H., Hauser, E., Mirsky,R., Biswas, J., Jiao, J., and Stone, P., (2022). Look to my Lead: How Does a Leash Affect Perceptions of a Quadruped Robot? Paper presented at the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
  • Jiao, J., Choi, S., Xu, W., (2021). Tracking Property Ownership Variance and Forecasting Housing Price with Machine Learning and Deep Learning. IEEE International Conference on Big Data. https://bigdataieee.org/BigData2021/SpecialSession.html
  • Jain, A., Svetlik,M., Machak, N., Sikand, K., Karamanli, C., Zhou, K., Hart, J.,  Biswas, J., Sentis, L., & Jiao, J. (2021). An Open-Source Framework for Last Mile Delivery with Heterogeneous Robots.  AAAI Spring Symposium 2021 Machine Learning for Mobile Robot Navigation in the Wild 10.13140/RG.2.2.32963.94244. 

Peter Stone, PhD

  • Reward (Mis)design for autonomous driving.
    W. Bradley Knox, Alessandro Allievi, Holger Banzhaf, Felix Schmitt, and Peter Stone.
    Artificial Intelligence, 316:103829, 2023.
    Paper webpage
  • Metric Residual Networks for Sample Efficient Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning.
    Bo Liu, Yihao Feng, Qiang Liu, and Peter Stone.
    In Thirty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), February 2023.
  • DM$^2$: Decentralized Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning via Distribution Matching.
    Caroline Wang, Ishan Durugkar, Elad Liebman, and Peter Stone.
    In Proceedings of the 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-23), February 2023.

Luis Sentis, PhD

  • WHOLE-BODY DYNAMIC BEHAVIOR AND CONTROL OF HUMAN-LIKE ROBOTS O. KHATIB, L. SENTIS, J. PARK (), and J. WARREN. International Journal of Humanoid Robotics 2004 01:01, 29-43. https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219843604000058
  • L. Sentis, J. Park and O. Khatib, “Compliant Control of Multicontact and Center-of-Mass Behaviors in Humanoid Robots,” in IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 483-501, June 2010, doi: 10.1109/TRO.2010.2043757.
  • L. Sentis and O. Khatib, “A whole-body control framework for humanoids operating in human environments,” Proceedings 2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2006. ICRA 2006., Orlando, FL, USA, 2006, pp. 2641-2648, doi: 10.1109/ROBOT.2006.1642100.
  • Radford, N.A., Strawser, P., Hambuchen, K., Mehling, J.S., Verdeyen, W.K., Donnan, A.S., Holley, J., Sanchez, J., Nguyen, V., Bridgwater, L., Berka, R., Ambrose, R., Myles Markee, M., Fraser-Chanpong, N.J., McQuin, C., Yamokoski, J.D., Hart, S., Guo, R., Parsons, A., Wightman, B., Dinh, P., Ames, B., Blakely, C., Edmondson, C., Sommers, B., Rea, R., Tobler, C., Bibby, H., Howard, B., Niu, L., Lee, A., Conover, M., Truong, L., Reed, R., Chesney, D., Platt, R., Jr, Johnson, G., Fok, C.-L., Paine, N., Sentis, L., Cousineau, E., Sinnet, R., Lack, J., Powell, M., Morris, B., Ames, A. and Akinyode, J. (2015), Valkyrie: NASA’s First Bipedal Humanoid Robot. J. Field Robotics, 32: 397-419. https://doi.org/10.1002/rob.21560

Joydeep Biswas, PhD

  • Kyle Vedder, Joydeep Biswas (2021). X*: Anytime Multi-Agent Path Finding For Sparse Domains Using Iterative Repairs. Artificial Intelligence, 291, pp. 103417. (pdf) (bib)
  • Asha Kailin Jain, Maxwell Svetlik, Nicholas Machak, Kavan Singh Sikand, Cem Karamanli, Kaiyu Zhou, Justin Hart, Joydeep Biswas, Luis Sentis, Junfeng Jiao (2021). An Open-Source Framework for Last Mile Delivery with Heterogeneous Robots. AAAI Spring Symposium Series, Machine Learning for Mobile Robot Navigation in the Wild. (pdf) (bib)
  • Jarrett Holtz, Arjun Guha, Joydeep Biswas (2020). Robot Action Selection Learning via Layered Dimension Informed Program Synthesis. In Conference on Robot Learning, pp. . (pdf) (bib)

Tina Peterson, PhD

  • T. L. Peterson, R. Ferreira and M. Y. Vardi, “Abstracted Power and Responsibility in Computer Science Ethics Education,” in IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society, doi: 10.1109/TTS.2022.3233776 (early access PDF)

Kenneth Fleischmann, PhD

  • Verma N., Fleischmann K.R., Koltai K.S. (2019) Understanding Online Trust and Information Behavior Using Demographics and Human Values. In: Taylor N., Christian-Lamb C., Martin M., Nardi B. (eds) Information in Contemporary Society. iConference 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11420. Springer, Cham
  • Golden, K. E. and Fleischmann, K. R. ( 2018). Digital Assistants and Human Values. In L. Freund (Ed.), Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology (pp. 813 814.) Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.2018.14505501128
  • Shovkun, M., Fleischmann, K. R. and Xie, B. ( 2018). Computational Social Science Using Topic Modeling: Analyzing Patients’ Values Using a Large Hospital Survey. In L. Freund (Ed.), Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology (pp. 890 891.) Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.2018.14505501163
  • Fleischmann, K. R., Hui, C. and Wallace, W. A. (2017), The Societal Responsibilities of Computational Modelers: Human Values and Professional Codes of Ethics. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 68: 543-552. doi:10.1002/asi.23697
  • Kelton, K., Fleischmann, K. R., & Wallace, W. A. (2008). Trust in digital information. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 59(3), 363-374.

Min Kyung Lee, PhD

  • Zhang, A., Walker, O., Nguyen, K., Dai, J., Chen, A., & Lee, M. K. (2023). Deliberating with AI: Improving Decision-Making for the Future through Participatory AI Design and Stakeholder Deliberation. arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.11623.
  • Zhang, A., Boltz, A., Lynn, J., Wang, C. W., & Lee, M. K. (2023). Stakeholder-Centered AI Design: Co-Designing Worker Tools with Gig Workers through Data Probes. arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.03367.
  • Zhang, A., Boltz, A., Wang, C. W., & Lee, M. K. (2022, April). Algorithmic management reimagined for workers and by workers: Centering worker well-being in gig work. In Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-20).
  • Claure, H., Chang, M. L., Kim, S., Omeiza, D., Brandao, M., Lee, M. K., & Jung, M. (2022, March). Fairness and Transparency in Human-Robot Interaction. In 2022 17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) (pp. 1244-1246). IEEE.

Justin Hart, PhD

  • J. W. Hart, and B. Scassellati. 2017. Robot Self-Modeling. International Journal of Humanoid Robotics.
  • J. Thomason, A. Padmakumar, J. Sinapov, J. W. Hart P, and R. Mooney.. November 2017. Opportunistic Active Learning for Grounding Natural Language Descriptions. Proceedings of the 1st Annual Confer- ence on Robot Learning. Mountain View, CA.
  • J. W. Hart and B. Scassellati. July 2012. Mirror Perspective-Taking with a Humanoid Robot. Proceedings of the 26th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Toronto, Ontario, Canada .
  • R. Fernandez, N. John, S. Kirmani, J. Hart, J. Sinapov, and P. Stone. August 2019. Passive Demonstrations of Light-Based Robot Signals for Improved Human Interpretability. Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication. Nanjing, China .
  • J. W. Hart and B. Scassellati. October 2011. A Robotic Model of the Ecological Self. Proceedings of the 11th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots . Bled, Slovenia.

Selected NRT Fellow Publications

Seung Jun Choi

  • Jiao, J.,Choi, S.*, Wang, H., & Farahi, A. (2023) Evaluating Air Quality Status in Chicago: Application of Street View Imagery and Urban Climate Sensors. Environmental Modeling & Assessment.
  • Lee, H., S. Choi, and J. Jiao. “Examining the COVID-19 effects on travel behavior using smart IoT sensors: A case study of smart city planning in Gangnam, Seoul.” International Journal of Sustainable Building Technology and Urban Development (2021): 347-362.
  • Jiao, Junfeng, Seung Jun Choi, and Weijia Xu. “Tracking Property Ownership Variance and Forecasting Housing Price with Machine Learning and Deep Learning.” 2021 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data). IEEE, 2021.

Connor Phillips

  • C. Phillips and J. Jiao, “Artificial Intelligence & Smart City Ethics: A Systematic Review,” 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Ethics in Engineering, Science, and Technology (ETHICS), West Lafayette, IN, USA, 2023, pp. 01-05, doi: 10.1109/ETHICS57328.2023.10154961.

Jonathan Lynn

  • Zhang, A., Boltz, A., Lynn, J., Wang, C., Lee, M. K. (2023). Stakeholder-Centered AI Design: Co-Designing Worker Tools with Gig Workers through Data Probes. To appear in Proceedings of the ACM/SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2022).

Tina Lassiter

  • Lan Li, Tina Lassiter, Joohee Oh, and Min Kyung Lee. 2021. Algorithmic Hiring in Practice: Recruiter and HR Professional’s Perspectives on AI Use in Hiring. In Proceedings of the 2021 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES ’21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 166–176. https://doi.org/10.1145/3461702.3462531
  • Faveri, B., Lawson, A., Lassiter, T., & Bouffard, G. (2022). Responsible AI Certification Program Guidebook (pp. 1-33). Responsible Artificial Intelligence Institute. https://drive.google.com/file/d/18SnZxv5tSHcGhLfqaEIafD1WFYKLnE9g/view

Carlos Gonzalez

  • Carlotta Mummolo, William Z. Peng, Carlos Gonzalez, and Joo H. Kim, “ContactDependent Balance Stability of Biped Robots,” Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, vol. 10, no. 2, p. 021009, 2018. [link]
  • Carlos Gonzalez and Ron Lumia, “An IPMC microgripper with integrated actuator and sensing for constant finger-tip displacement,” Smart Materials and Structures, vol. 24, no. 5, p. 55011, 2015. [link]
  • Junhyeok Ahn, Seung Hyeon Bang, Carlos Gonzalez, Yuanchen Yuan, Luis Sentis, “Data-Driven Safety Verification for Legged Robots,” in IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, 2022

Max Rudolph

  • Rethinking Sim2Real: Lower Fidelity Simulation Leads to Higher Sim2Real Transfer in Navigation. Truong, J., Rudolph, M., Yokoyama, N., Chernova, S., Batra, D., Rai, A. Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2022
  • Trait-aware Heterogeneous Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Robot Teams. Rudolph, M., Sinha, S., Ravichandar, H. in preperation
  • Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures: Towards Risk-Adaptive Task Allocation. Rudolph, M., Chernova, S., Ravichandar, H. IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2021
  • Heterogeneous Multi-agent Coverage Control for Range Limited Robots. Rudolph, M., Wilson, S., Egerstedt, M. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2021

Chelsea Collier

  • Collier, Chelsea. “What a Smart City Is… and Is Not.” Smart Cities Connect (2020).