Sonia Chernova
Professor
Directs the RAIL lab on robot learning, human-robot interaction and explainable AI.
Sonia Chernova's lab at Georgia Tech works on manipulation & robot learning, human-robot interaction & assistive robots and trustworthy & safe ML. 29 papers since 2023, 9 at top venues, mostly HRI and Autonomous Robots. 6 PhD students and 5 master's students. 21 alumni, most often to Amazon and Diligent Robotics. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 8/ year
- at T1 venues
- 31%
- PhD students
- 6
- MS students
- 5
- alumni listed
- 21
Papers by yearfrom DBLP, 2023–2026
- 2 papers2026 · T1 2 · collecting
- 5 papers2025 · T1 1
- 7 papers2024 · T1 0
- 15 papers2023 · T1 6
T1 venuesOtherVenues: HRI, Autonomous Robots, CHI, CoRL, ICRA
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Manipulation & robot learning12 papers
- Human-robot interaction & assistive robots10 papers
- human-robot interaction3 papers
- explainable2 papers
- Trustworthy & safe ML1 paper
Paper list
From DBLP.
20262 papers
20255 papers
- RO-MANA Model-Agnostic Approach for Semantically Driven Disambiguation in Human-Robot Interaction (opens in a new tab)
- RO-MANPersonalized Robotic Object Rearrangement from Scene Context (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)Playing Dumb to Get Smart: Creating and Evaluating an LLM-based Teachable Agent within University Computer Science Classes (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.Robot Behavior Personalization From Sparse User Feedback (opens in a new tab)
- UbiComp CompanionVISAR: Visualization and Interpretation of Sensor-based Activity Recognition for Smart Homes (opens in a new tab)
20247 papers
- AI Mag.AI-CARING: National AI Institute for Collaborative Assistance and Responsive Interaction for Networked Groups (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.CE-MRS: Contrastive Explanations for Multi-Robot Systems (opens in a new tab)
- Frontiers Robotics AIClustering user preferences for personalized teleoperation control schemes via trajectory similarity analysis (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.IndoorSim-to-OutdoorReal: Learning to Navigate Outdoors Without Any Outdoor Experience (opens in a new tab)
- RESPECTLessons Learned from Developing and Implementing a High School CS Bridge Program (opens in a new tab)
- J. Ambient Intell. Smart Environ.Sensor event sequence prediction for proactive smart home: A GPT2-based autoregressive language model approach (opens in a new tab)
- ACM Trans. Hum. Robot Interact.UHTP: A User-Aware Hierarchical Task Planning Framework for Communication-Free, Mutually-Adaptive Human-Robot Collaboration (opens in a new tab)
202315 papers
- Robotics Auton. Syst.A survey of Semantic Reasoning frameworks for robotic systems (opens in a new tab)
- ICMLAALLFA: Active Learning Through Label and Feature Augmentation (opens in a new tab)
- RO-MANBenefits of Multi-Objective Trajectory Adaptation in Close-Proximity Human-Robot Interaction (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)ConSOR: A Context-Aware Semantic Object Rearrangement Framework for Partially Arranged Scenes (opens in a new tab)
- IJCAI (T1)Creative Problem Solving in Artificially Intelligent Agents: A Survey and Framework (Extended Abstract) (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.D-ITAGS: A Dynamic Interleaved Approach to Resilient Task Allocation, Scheduling, and Motion Planning (opens in a new tab)
- ACM Trans. Interact. Intell. Syst.Explainable Activity Recognition for Smart Home Systems (opens in a new tab)
- PerCom WorkshopsExtraction of Important Temporal Order for eXplainable AI on Time-series data (opens in a new tab)
- Autonomous RobotsLearning instance-level N-ary semantic knowledge at scale for robots operating in everyday environments (opens in a new tab)
- CoRL (T1)Predicting Routine Object Usage for Proactive Robot Assistance (opens in a new tab)
- HRI (T1)Semantic Scene Understanding for Human-Robot Interaction (opens in a new tab)
- IESensor Event Sequence Prediction for Proactive Smart Home Support Using Autoregressive Language Model (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went21 listed, 65% to industry
Industry 13Academia 7
Most often to
- Amazon
- Diligent Robotics
- Diligent Robotics Co-Founder
Also to
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Georgia Tech
- MIT
Apply to Georgia TechFall 2027
Georgia Tech Computer Science PhD
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- Single round
- Opens
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- GRE
- optional
- English
- TOEFL/IELTS
- Fee
- See program page
Not yet confirmed for this intake.
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