About Me:
I am currently a METEOR Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. I received my PhD from the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University in August of 2023. I was advised by Professor Hadas Kress-Gazit and was part of the Verifiable Robotics Research Group
Research:
I work on human robot interaction and planning with minimal information. I am branching out into more areas of HRI (for example teams with multiple robots and people)! Shoot me a message if you are interested in collaborating.
Publications:
Peer-Reviewed Conference Papers:
Claire Liang*, Cheng Perng Phoo*, Tenny Yin, Bharath Hariharan, Hadas Kress-Gazit "Following Signs in an Airport: A Minimalist Perception System for Mapless Navigation". In Preparation.
Claire Liang*, Andy E. Ricci*, “Direction-giving between Humans and Robots in the Wild". In Preparation.
Claire Liang, Hadas Kress-Gazit, Sean Andrist "Computing the Spatial Structure of F-Formations for Robot Social Group Entry". In Preparation.
Claire Liang*, Wil Thomason*, E. Andy Ricci, Soham Sankaran "Ensuring Progress for Multiple Mobile Robots via Space Partitioning, Motion Rules, and Adaptively Centralized Conflict Resolution". In Preparation.
Claire Liang, Hadas Kress-Gazit. "Homotopy-Driven Exploration of Human-made Spaces Using Signs". In: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). Xi’an, China, May/June 2021.
Claire Liang, Ross A. Knepper, and Florian T. Pokorny. "No Map, No Problem: A Local Sensing Approach for Navigation in Human-Made Spaces Using Signs". In: IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). Las Vegas, United States, October 2020.
Claire Liang, Julia Proft, Erik Andersen, and Ross A. Knepper. "Implicit communication of actionable information in human-AI teams". In: Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). Honorable Mention. Glasgow, United Kingdom, May 2019.
Ross A. Knepper, Christoforos I. Mavrogiannis, Julia Proft, and Claire Liang. "Implicit communication in a joint action". In: Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). Best Paper Finalist. Vienna, Austria, March 2017.
Workshop Papers:
Claire Liang, Cheng Perng Phoo, Laasya Renganathan, Yingying Yu, Bharath Hariharan, and Hadas Kress-Gazit "Perceiving Signs for Navigation Guidance in Spaces Designed for Humans". In: Closing the Academia to Real-World Gap in Service Robotics. Proceedings of the Robotics Science and Systems Conference (RSS). Virtual, July 2020.
Claire Liang and Ross A. Knepper. "Minimalist motion planning using global topological guarantees". In: Workshop on Topological Methods in Robot Planning. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). Montréal, Canada, May 2019.
Claire Liang, Julia Proft, and Ross A. Knepper. "Implicature-based inference for socially-fluent robotic teammates". In: Workshop on Mathematical Models, Algorithms, and Human-Robot Interaction. Proceedings of the Robotics Science and Systems Conference (RSS). Cambridge, USA, July 2017.
Teaching:
CS 1112 | Introduction to Computing using MATLAB [Spring 2022] | Teaching Assistant | (Cornell Computer Science Department Teaching Assistant Award)
CS 4750 | Foundations of Robotics [Fall 2021] | Teaching Assistant | (Cornell Computer Science Department Teaching Assistant Award)
CS 4750 | Foundations of Robotics [Fall 2018] | Teaching Assistant | (Cornell Computer Science Department Teaching Assistant Award)
CS 4750 | Foundations of Robotics [Fall 2017] | Teaching Assistant
CS 4820 | Analysis of Algorithms [Spring 2017] | Teaching Assistant
CS 4786 | Machine Learning for Data Science [Fall 2016] | Teaching Assistant