Bio

I’m a Wallenberg Research Fellow (MIT / KTH) in Human-Robot Interaction, working with Julie Shah's Interactive Robotics Group at MIT CSAIL and Joakim Gustafson at KTH. I collaborate with colleagues and friends to develop explainable multimodal AI technologies that improve human-machine communication. The goal of our work is to design inherently explainable collaborative robots leveraging quantitative and machine-learning methods. We aim to make complex AI models more accessible to people by using the most intuitive means of communication: human verbal and non-verbal cues.

Before joining MIT, I worked at Verena Hafner's group at Humboldt University of Berlin as a Postdoctoral Researcher. I completed my PhD from KTH Royal Institute of Technology under the supervision of Joakim Gustafson and Gabriel Skantze. Along the way, I’ve had the privilege of working with inspiring teams during research visits to Eric Horvitz's group at Microsoft Research in Seattle, mentored by Dan Bohus and Sean Andrist; Mohammad Soleymani's group at the Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California; and David Schlangen's group at the University of Potsdam, where I also held a postdoctoral position.

My research has been featured in leading venues such as HRI, CHI, and ICMI, as well as in psychology and computer science journals; it has also been showcased to the public through science fairs. I am currently the PI on a Wallenberg Research Fellowship. I’ve also been involved in the organisation of HRI 2026 and ICMI 2024 and served in editorial roles, including Associate Chair for CHI 2025 and 2026, ROMAN 2024, and ACII 2024. Additionally, I am an Associate Editor for IEEE RA-L and a Guest Associate Editor for ACM THRI.

I teach and mentor topics aligned with my research interests, and I like to involve students in hands-on activities and projects that connect theory with real-world applications. If you are interested in the intersection of humans and machines and seeking a project, feel free to reach out.