Tom Williams – - Human-Robot Interaction Laboratory

Tom Williams
Education
2013–2017 Ph.D., Computer Science and Cognitive Science, Tufts University, Advisor:
(Expected) Matthias Scheutz.
2011–2013 M.S., Computer Science, Tufts University, Advisor: Matthias Scheutz.
Masters Project: Natural Language Reference Resolution to Unknown Locations
2007–2011 B.A., Computer Science, Hamilton College, Advisor: Stuart Hirshfield.
Minors: Mathematics, Creative Writing
Research & Work Experience
2011-Current Research Assistant, Tufts University.
Human-Robot Interaction
2010-2010 Student Researcher, Hamilton College.
Brain-Computer Interaction
2009-2009 Student Researcher, Hamilton College.
Cognitive Robotics
2009-2009 Consultant, Assured Information Security.
Cyberforensics
2007-2008 Student Researcher, Hamilton College.
Cyberforensics
Honors and Awards
2015
2015
2015
2015
2014
2013
Teaching Fellowship, Tufts University Graduate Institute for Teaching ($2000)
Best Poster Award, Tufts University Graduate Student Research Symposium
HRI Pioneers Travel Grant, NSF
Graduate Student Travel Award, Tufts University ($400)
Graduate Student Travel Award, Tufts University ($400)
Student Volunteer Travel Award, AAAI ($300)
Publications
2015 Williams, Tom. “Towards More Natural Human-Robot Dialogue”. In: Proceedings of
the 6th Pioneers Workshop at HRI 2015.
Williams, Tom, Gordon Briggs, Bradley Oosterveld, and Matthias Scheutz. “Going
Beyond Command-Based Instructions: Extending Robotic Natural Language Interaction Capabilities”. In: Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial
Intelligence. 27% acceptance rate.
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2014 Krause, Evan, Michael Zillich, Tom Williams, and Matthias Scheutz. “Learning to
Recognize Novel Objects in One Shot through Human-Robot Interactions in Natural
Language Dialogues”. In: Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth AAAI Conference on
Artificial Intelligence. 28% acceptance rate.
Williams, Tom. “Position Paper”. In: Proceedings of the 10th Young Researchers’
Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems (YRRSDS 2014).
Williams, Tom, Priscilla Briggs, Nathaniel Pelz, and Matthias Scheutz. “Is Robot
Telepathy Acceptable? Investigating Effects of Nonverbal Robot-Robot Communication
on Human-Robot Interaction”. In: Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE Symposium on Robot
and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN).
Williams, Tom, Rafael C Núñez, Gordon Briggs, Matthias Scheutz, Kamal Premaratne,
and Manohar N Murthi. “A Dempster-Shafer Theoretic Approach to Understanding
Indirect Speech Acts”. In: Advances in Artificial Intelligence– 14th Ibero-American
Conference on AI (IBERAMIA). 26% acceptance rate for Natural-Language Processing
track.
2013 Scheutz, Matthias, Gordon Briggs, Rehj Cantrell, Evan Krause, Tom Williams, and
Richard Veale. “Novel Mechanisms for Natural Human-Robot Interactions in the
DIARC Architecture”. In: Proceedings of the 2013 AAAI Workshop on Intelligent
Robotic Systems.
Williams, Tom, Rehj Cantrell, Gordon Briggs, Paul Schermerhorn, and Matthias
Scheutz. “Grounding Natural Language References to Unvisited and Hypothetical
Locations”. In: Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial
Intelligence. 29% acceptance rate.
2011 Hirshfield, Leanne, Rebecca Gulotta, Stuart Hirshfield, Sam Hincks, Matthew Russell,
Rachel Ward, Tom Williams, and Robert Jacob. “This is your brain on interfaces:
enhancing usability testing with functional near-infrared spectroscopy”. In: Proceedings
of the 2011 annual conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI). 23%
acceptance rate.
Hirshfield, Leanne, Stuart Hirshfield, Sam Hincks, Matthew Russell, Rachel Ward, and
Tom Williams. “Trust in Human-Computer Interactions as Measured by Frustration,
Surprise, and Workload”. In: Foundations of Augmented Cognition. Directing the
Future of Adaptive Systems.
2008 Hirshfield, Stuart, Colden Prime, and Tom Williams. A Next-Generation Model for
Live Cyber Forensics. Tech. rep. Rome, NY: AFRL Rome Laboratory.
2007 Hirshfield, Stuart, Colden Prime, and Tom Williams. A New Model for Live CyberForensics. Tech. rep. Rome, NY: AFRL Rome Laboratory.
Service
Community Outreach
2015 Panelist, A Study in Chrome: The Ethics of Silverside, PAX East.
2015 Presenter, Open House, AAAI.
2014 Lab Representative, Community-Day, Tufts University.
Professional Service
2016 Program Committe Co-Chair, HRI Pioneers.
2015 Reviewer, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
(IROS).
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2015
2014
2013
2015-Current
2013-Current
Reviewer, Autonomous Robots).
Volunteer, Workshop: Programming for Non-Programmers, Tufts University.
Volunteer, AAAI.
Student Member, COGSCI.
Student Member, AAAI .
Teaching and Mentorship
Teaching
2015 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, Tufts University.
Co-Taught with Prof. Anselm Blumer
Teaching Assistance
2014 Probabilistic Robotics, Tufts University.
2013 Problem-Solving by Computer, Tufts University.
2009-2011 Introductory CS Courses, Hamilton College.
Mentorship
2014-2014 Nathaniel Pelz, Senior Research Project, Tufts University.
Co-author on 2014 ROMAN paper
2013-2014 Steven Lessard, Research Assistant, Tufts University.
Now a graduate student at UC Santa Cruz
Tutoring
2010 Undergraduate Computer Science.
2010 High School Mathematics.
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