Bio
I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at Brown University's Data Science Institute and Center for Technological Responsibility, Reimagination and Redesign (CNTR), working in the GIRAFFE Lab with Assistant Professor Serena Booth. I earned my PhD in Computer Science from Tufts University in May 2025, where I worked in the Assistive Agent Behavior and Learning Lab (AABL) under the supervision of Dr. Elaine Short. I graduated from Rutgers University New Brunswick (2020) in the Honors Program with a BA in Cognitive Science and a minor in Computer Science. I am also a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Honors Society.
Research Interests
My interests lie in people driven computer science. In other words, how to develop AI and robots that both help people and are inspired by people. To these ends, I am concerned with developing algorithms that allow robots to fluidly interact with and learn from humans.
Selected Publications
- Online Behavior Modification for Expressive User Control of RL-Trained Robots
Isaac Sheidlower, Mavis Murdock, Emma Bethel, Reuben M. Aronson, and Elaine Short.
Proceedings of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 639–648, 2024.
Paper - Imagining In-distribution States: How Predictable Robot Behavior Can Enable User Control Over Learned Policies
Isaac Sheidlower, Emma Bethel, Douglas Lilly, Reuben M. Aronson, and Elaine Schaertl Short.
33rd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), Pasadena, CA, USA, 2024.
Paper - Rethinking Robot Ownership: Comparing Public, Corporate, and Private Ownership Models
Isaac Sheidlower, Tomo Lazovich, Harini Suresh, and Serena Booth.
Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES), 9(4), 2289–2305, 2026.
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