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Cynthia Breazeal
American computer scientistborn 1967
Supervised 14 doctoral students (66 students at any level) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Wikidata names Rodney Brooks as doctoral advisor and lists 5 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 6 other registers.
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Students66
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Yubin Kim“Healthcare Agents: Large Language Models in Health Prediction and Decision-Making”
2025 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's - cited by a thesis record
Caroline K. Cunningham“Improving Introductory Computer Science Students’ Programming Process When Using a Generative AI Tutor (PyTutor)”
2025 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's - cited by a thesis record
Si Liang Lei“Programmable Expressiveness in Non-Social Tasks: A Mixed-Methods Study of Middle School AI Learning”
2025 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's - cited by a thesis record2025 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
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Eden Adler“Modeling the Affect of “Aha!" Moments to Detect the Moment of Learning”
2024 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's - cited by a thesis record
Jocelyn Shen“Modeling Empathic Similarity in Personal Narratives”
2023 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's - cited by a thesis record
Anastasia K. Ostrowski“How do we design robots equitably?: Engaging design justice, design fictions, and co-design in human-robot interaction design and policymaking processes”
2023 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Raul Alcantara“Frientelligent: Autonomous multi-agent collaboration, competition, and interaction curriculum for young children”
2023 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's - cited by a thesis record
Pedro Colón-Hernández“A Conversational Agent for Dynamic Procedural Interactions”
2023 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Sooyeon Jeong“Designing and Deploying Robotic Companions to Improve Human Psychological Wellbeing”
2022 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Xiajie Zhang“Towards Building a Pedagogical Agent that Supports Children’s Exploration and Home Literacy Education”
2022 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's - cited by a thesis record
Hannah H. Pang“Computational Action in Action: Process and Tools that Empower Students to Make a Real-world Impact Using Technology”
2022 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's - cited by a thesis record
Daniella DiPaola“How does my robot know who I am?: Understanding the Impact of Education on Child-Robot Relationships”
2021 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's - cited by a thesis record2021 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
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Nada Hussein“Machine Audition Curriculum and Real-Time Music Accompaniment”
2021 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's - cited by a thesis record
Soo Jung Jang“Designing Parent-Child-Robot Triadic Storybook Reading Interaction”
2021 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's - cited by a thesis record
Felipe Moreno“Expresso-AI : a framework for explainable video based deep learning models through gestures and expressions”
2021 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's - cited by a thesis record
Alex Chen“JiboChat : interactive chatting through a personal robot”
2020 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's - cited by a thesis record
Blakeley H. Payne“Can my algorithm be my opinion? : an AI + ethics curriculum for middle school students”
2020 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's - cited by a thesis record2020 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
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Safinah Arshad Ali“Designing child robot interaction for facilitating creative learning”
2019 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's - cited by a thesis record
Jacqueline M. Kory-Westlund“Relational AI : creating long-term interpersonal interaction, rapport, and relationships with social robots”
2019 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Huili Chen“Adaptive role switching in socially interactive agents for children's language learning”
2018 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's - cited by a thesis record
Randi Williams“PopBots : leveraging social robots to aid preschool children's artificial intelligence education”
2018 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's - cited by a thesis record
Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar“The role of social robots in fostering human empathy : a cross-cultural exploration”
2018 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's - cited by a thesis record
Stefania Druga“Growing up with AI : Cognimates : from coding to teaching machines”
2018 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's - cited by a thesis record
Ishaan Grover“A semantics based computational model for word learning”
2018 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's - cited by a thesis record2018 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
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Nikhita Singh“Talking machines : democratizing the design of voice-based agents for the home”
2018 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's - cited by a thesis record
Nicholas Brian DePalma“Bidirectional gaze guiding and indexing in human-robot interaction through a situated architecture”
2017 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Palash Nandy“On electric owls : implicit life-stories of robots and their impact on human empathy”
2016 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's - cited by a thesis record
Philipp Robbel“Local multiagent control in large factored planning Problems”
2016 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
David S. Nuñez“GlobalLit : a platform for collecting, analyzing, and reacting to children's usage data on tablet computers”
2015 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's - cited by a thesis record2015 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
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Sigurđur Örn Ađalgeirsson“Mind-theoretic planning for social robots”
2014 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Jacqueline Kory“Storytelling with robots : effects of robot language level on children's language learning”
2014 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's - cited by a thesis record2014 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Nancy Foen“Exploring the human-car bond through an Affective Intelligent Driving Agent (AIDA)”
2012 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's - cited by a thesis record
Natalie Anne Freed“"This is the fluffy robot that only speaks French" : language use between preschoolers, their families, and a social robot while sharing virtual toys”
2012 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's - cited by a thesis record
Kristopher B. dos Santos“The Huggable : a socially assistive robot for pediatric care”
2012 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's - cited by a thesis record
Adam Setapen“Creating robotic characters for long-term interaction”
2012 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's - cited by a thesis record
Kenton J. Williams“Physics-, social-, and capability- based reasoning for robotic manipulation”
2012 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's - cited by a thesis record
Angela Chang“TinkRBooks : tinkerable story elements for emergent literacy”
2011 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Julián Hernández Muñoz“Integrated vision framework for a robotics research and development platform”
2011 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's - cited by a thesis record
Jin Joo Lee“Modeling the dynamics of nonverbal behavior on interpersonal trust for human-robot interactions”
2011 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's - cited by a thesis record
Jesse V. Gray“Reusing a robot's behavioral mechanisms to model and manipulate human mental states”
2010 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Maria Guirguis“Robot search and rescue : a comparison of 3D mapping techniques”
2010 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's - cited by a thesis record
Ryan Mark Wistort“TofuDraw : choreographing robot behavior through Digital Painting”
2010 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's - cited by a thesis record
Michael Steven Siegel“Persuasive robotics : how robots change our minds”
2009 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's - cited by a thesis record
Nicolina Alden Akraboff“Design of transmission mechanisms for the head of the 'Huggable' robotic teddy bear”
2008 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · bachelor's - cited by a thesis record
Matthew Roberts Berlin“Understanding the embodied teacher : nonverbal cues for sociable robot learning”
2008 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Yingdan Gu“Semi-autonomous mobile phone communication avatar for enhanced interaction”
2008 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · bachelor's - cited by a thesis record
Collin Eugene Johnson“The design and implementation of Alan Touring, the Campus Tourbot”
2008 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's - cited by a thesis record
Cory David Kidd“Designing for long-term human-robot interaction and application to weight loss”
2008 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Heather-Marie Callanan Knight“An architecture for sensate robots : real time social-gesture recognition using a full body array of touch sensors”
2008 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's - cited by a thesis record
Robert Lopez Toscano“Building a semi-autonomous sociable robot platform for robust interpersonal telecommunication”
2008 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's - cited by a thesis record
Guy Hoffman“Ensemble : fluency and embodiment for robots acting with humans”
2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Levi Lalla“A design of actuation mechanisms for use in 'huggable' robotic teddy bear”
2006 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · bachelor's - cited by a thesis record
Javier G Matamoros“Design of a mixed reality workspace for an expressive humanoid robot”
2006 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · bachelor's - cited by a thesis record2006 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Andrew Wang“Physically animated desktop computer for ergonomic & affective movement”
2006 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's - cited by a thesis record
Jeremy H Scholz“Design of a voice coil actuated office chair”
2005 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · bachelor's - cited by a thesis record
Walter Daniel Stiehl“Sensitive skins and somatic processing for affective and sociable robots based upon a somatic alphabet approach”
2005 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's - cited by a thesis record
Derik Thomann“Design of human-like posture prediction for inverse kinematic posture control of a humanoid robot”
2005 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · bachelor's - cited by a thesis record
Jeff I. Lieberman“Teaching a robot manipulation skills through demonstration”
2004 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's - cited by a thesis record
John M. McBean“Design and control of a voice coil actuated robot arm for human-robot interaction”
2004 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · master's
Advisors on Wikidata1
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Students on Wikidata5
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- stated by Wikidataborn 2000
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The line above and below4 steps
The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.
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stated by WikidataRodney Brooks
- 2 steps up
stated by WikidataThomas Binford
- 3 steps up
stated by WikidataMyron L. Good
- 4 steps up
stated by WikidataHenry W. Newson
Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 19 people: 14 cited by thesis records, 5 stated by Wikidata.
Education and career3
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