Tufts Institute of Artificial Intelligence and its researchers are leaders in fields such as data science, mathematics, data-driven AI, human-robot interaction, human-AI interaction, human factors engineering, AI in Education, normative AI, Multi-agent systems, and interactive task learning – just to name a few.
We ensure that AI has a meaningful and ethical impact on society through interdisciplinary research projects.
Explore our recent publications listed below:
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- Gaikwad, Bipin, Abani Patra, Carl R. Crawford, and Eric L. Miller. "Self-supervised anomaly detection and localization for X-ray cargo images: Generalization to novel anomalies." Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence 140 (2025): 109675.
- Georgalis, G., Becerra, A., Budzinski, K., McGurn, M., Faghihi, D., DesJardin, P.E. and Patra, A., 2025. Uncertainty Quantification of Slab Burner Simulation: Surrogates, Forward Propagation, and Parameter Calibration, Journal of Propulsion & Power [Under Review].
- Haensch, A. (2025). Becoming a Data Scientist: An Impractical Guide. The American Mathematical Monthly, 132(1), 6-13.
- Gaikwad, Bipin, Abani Patra, Carl R. Crawford, and Eric L. Miller. "Self-supervised anomaly detection and localization for X-ray cargo images: Generalization to novel anomalies." Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence 140 (2025): 109675.
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- Ali SA, Perera G, Laird J, Batorsky R, Maron MS, Rivas VN, Stern JA, Harris S, Chin MT. Single Cell Transcriptomic Profiling of MYBPC3-Associated Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Across Species Reveals Conservation of Biological Process But Not Gene Expression. J Am Heart Assoc. 2025 Jan 7;14(1):e035780. doi: 10.1161/JAHA.124.035780. Epub 2024 Dec 24. PubMed PMID: 39719426.
- Jetton D, Muendlein HI, Connolly WM, Magri Z, Smirnova I, Batorsky R, Mecsas J, Degterev A, Poltorak A. Non-canonical autophosphorylation of RIPK1 drives timely pyroptosis to control Yersinia infection. Cell Rep. 2024 Aug 27;43(8):114641. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2024.114641. Epub 2024 Aug 17. PubMed PMID: 39154339; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11465231.
- Joshi VR, Claiborne DT, Pack ML, Power KA, Newman RM, Batorsky R, Bean DJ, Goroff MS, Lingwood D, Seaman MS, Rosenberg E, Allen TM. A VRC13-like bNAb response is associated with complex escape pathways in HIV-1 envelope. J Virol. 2024 Mar 19;98(3):e0172023. doi: 10.1128/jvi.01720-23. Epub 2024 Feb 27. PubMed PMID: 38412036; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10949433.s
- Perera G, Power L, Larson A, Codden CJ, Awata J, Batorsky R, Strathdee D, Chin MT. Single Cell Transcriptomic Analysis in a Mouse Model of Barth Syndrome Reveals Cell-Specific Alterations in Gene Expression and Intercellular Communication. Int J Mol Sci. 2023 Jul 18;24(14). doi: 10.3390/ijms241411594. PubMed PMID: 37511352; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10380964.
- Retfalvi, K., Georgalis, G., Patra, A. and DesJardin, P.E., 2024. TCP-UQ: two-color pyrometry uncertainty quantification using high speed color cameras. Measurement Science and Technology, 36(1), p.015211.
- Bourgeois, J. W., Haensch, A., Kher, S., Knox, D., Lanzalotto, G., & Wong, T. A. (2024). How to Use Causal Inference to Study Use of Force. CHANCE, 37(4), 6-10.
- Pierrick Lorang and Helmut Horvath and Tobias Kietreiber and Patrik Zips and Clemens Heitzinger and Matthias Scheutz (2024). Adapting to the “Open World”: The Utility of Hybrid Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning and Symbolic Planning. Proceedings of ICRA.
- M. Scheutz and B. Oosterveld and J. Peterson and E. Wyss (2024). Dialogue-Based Task Instructions and Modifications for Industrial Robots. Proceedings of ARCI 2024.
- M. Scheutz and B. Oosterveld and J. Peterson and E. Wyss and E. Krause (2024). A Multi-Robot Architecture Framework for Effective Robot Teammates in Mixed-Initiative Teams. Proceedings of Technical Advances in Human-Robot Interaction (THARI'24).
- Mitchell Abrams and Christopher Thierauf and Matthias Scheutz (2024). Robots That Perform Norm-Based Reference Resolution. Proceedings of ICSR.
- Gaikwad B, Patra A, Crawford C, Miller E (2024). Self-Supervised Anomaly Detection and a New Benchmark for X-Ray Cargo Images. 2024 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP).
- Muhammad Umair and Vasanth Sarathy and JP de Ruiter (2024). Large Language Models Know What To Say But Not When To Speak.
- Mirsky, R., & Shpiro, E. (2024, March). Recognition and Identification of Intentional Blocking in Social Navigation. Proceedings of the 2024 International Symposium on Technological Advances in Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 101-110).
- J. Huang, I. Sheidlower, R. M. Aronson, E. S. Short. "On the Effect of Robot Errors on Human Teaching Dynamics". International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI), Swansea, UK, November 2024.
- J. Staley, S. Goel, Y. Shukla, E. Short. "Agent-Centric Human Demonstrations Train World Models". Reinforcement Learning Conference (RLC), Amherst, August 2024.
- H. Owens, R. M. Aronson, E. Short. "The Limits of Robot Moderators: Evidence Against Robot Personalization and Participation Equalization in a Building Task". IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), Pasadena, August 2024.
- H. Yu, Q. Fang, S. Fang, R. M. Aronson, E. Short. "How Much Progress Did I Make? An Unexplored Human Feedback Signal for Teaching Robots". IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), Pasadena, August 2024.
- I. Sheidlower, E. Bethel, D. Lilly, R. M. Aronson, E. Short. "Imagining In-distribution States: How Predictable Robot Behavior Can Enable User Control Over Learned Policies". IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), Pasadena, August 2024.
- R. M. Aronson, E. Short. "Intentional User Adaptation to Shared Control Assistance". ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Boulder, March 2024.
- J. Huang, R. M. Aronson, E. Short. "Modeling Variation in Human Feedback with User Inputs: An Exploratory Methodology". ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Boulder, March 2024.
- I. Sheidlower, M. Murdock, E. Bethel, R. M. Aronson, E. Short. "Online Behavior Modification for Expressive User Control of RL-Trained Robots". ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Boulder, March 2024.
- Ali SA, Perera G, Laird J, Batorsky R, Maron MS, Rivas VN, Stern JA, Harris S, Chin MT. Single Cell Transcriptomic Profiling of MYBPC3-Associated Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Across Species Reveals Conservation of Biological Process But Not Gene Expression. J Am Heart Assoc. 2025 Jan 7;14(1):e035780. doi: 10.1161/JAHA.124.035780. Epub 2024 Dec 24. PubMed PMID: 39719426.
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- Laird J, Perera G, Batorsky R, Wang H, Arkun K, Chin M. Spatial Transcriptomic Analysis of Focal and Normal Areas of Myocyte Disarray in Human Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 2023; 24(16). doi: 10.3390/ijms241612625.
- M Dahal, L Kresin, C Rogers (2023). Introductory Activities for Teaching Robotics with SmartMotors. International Conference on Robotics in Education (RiE), 229-241.
- K. H. Allen, A. K. Balaska, R. M. Aronson, C. Rogers, E. Short. "Barriers and Benefits: The Path to Accessible Makerspaces". International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS), New York, October 2023.
- H. Yu, R. M. Aronson, K. H. Allen, E. Short. "From "Thumbs Up" to "10 out of 10": Reconsidering Scalar Feedback in Interactive Reinforcement Learning". International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Detroit, October 2023.
- Lyu, Boyang and Nguyen, Thuan and Scheutz, Matthias and Ishwar, Prakash and Aeron, Shuchin. A Principled Approach to Model Validation in Domain Generalization. 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
- Patrick Feeney and Sarah Schneider and Panagiotis Lymperopoulos and Liping Liu and Matthias Scheutz and Michael C Hughes. NovelCraft: A Dataset for Novelty Detection and Discovery in Open Worlds. Transactions on Machine Learning Research. Transactions on Machine Learning Research (2023).
- Sarah Schneider and Doris Antensteiner and Daniel Soukup and Matthias Scheutz. Encoding Semantic Attributes - Towards Explainable AI in Industry. PETRA '23: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments.
- Lyu, Boyang and Nguyen, Thuan and Ishwar, Prakash and Scheutz, Matthias and Aeron, Shuchin. Barycentric-alignment and reconstruction loss minimization for domain generalization. IEEE Access.
- Nguyen, Thuan and Scheutz, Matthias and Aeron, Shuchin. On the failure of Invariant Risk Minimization and an effective fix via classification error control. 2023 IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing.
- Christopher Thierauf and Ravenna Thielstrom and Bradley Oosterveld and Will Becker and Matthias Scheutz. "Do this instead"-- Robots that Adequately Respond to Corrected Instructions. ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI).
- Michael Jahn and Matthias Scheutz. Investigating a Generalization of Probabilistic Material Implication and Bayesian Conditionals. Proceedings of the 39th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence.
- Michael Jahn and Matthias Scheutz. Generalizing Probabilistic Material Implication and Bayesian Conditionals. International Journal of Approximate Reasoning.
- Jennifer Leaf and Julie A. Adams and Matthias Scheutz and Michael A. Goodrich. Resilience for Goal-Based Agents: Formalism, Metrics, and Case Studies. IEEE Access.
- Laird J, Perera G, Batorsky R, Wang H, Arkun K, Chin M. Spatial Transcriptomic Analysis of Focal and Normal Areas of Myocyte Disarray in Human Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 2023; 24(16). doi: 10.3390/ijms241612625.
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- I. Sheidlower, A. Moore, E. Short. "Keeping Humans in the Loop: Teaching via Feedback in Continuous Action Space Environments". International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Kyoto, October 2022.
- MMA de Graaf, G. Perugia, E. Fosch-Villaronga, A. Lim, F. Broz, E.S. Short. "Inclusive hri: Equity and diversity in design, application, methods, and community". ACM/IEEE Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Online, March 2022.
- I. Sheidlower, A. Moore, E. Short. "Keeping Humans in the Loop: Teaching via Feedback in Continuous Action Space Environments". International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Kyoto, October 2022.
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- Z Zhang, S Willner-Giwerc, J Sinapov, J Cross, C Rogers (2021). An Interactive Robot Platform for Introducing Reinforcement Learning to K-12 Students. Robotics in Education: RiE 2021 12, 288-301
- Z Zhang, K Lavigne, W Church, J Sinapov, C Rogers (2021). Introducing Reinforcement Learning to K-12 Students with Robots and Augmented Reality. International Conference on Robotics in Education (RiE), 351-365.
- Mirsky, R., Keren, S., & Geib, C. (2021). Introduction to symbolic plan and goal recognition. San Rafael, CA, USA: Morgan & Claypool Publishers. (Vol. 16, pp. 1-190).
- S.Y. Lo, E. Short, A. Thomaz. "Robust Planning with Emergent Human-Like Behavior for Agents Traveling in Groups". International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Online, July 2021.
- Z Zhang, S Willner-Giwerc, J Sinapov, J Cross, C Rogers (2021). An Interactive Robot Platform for Introducing Reinforcement Learning to K-12 Students. Robotics in Education: RiE 2021 12, 288-301
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- Vasanth Sarathy, Alexander Tsuetaki, Antonio Roque, Matthias Scheutz (2020). Reasoning Requirements for Indirect Speech Act Interpretation. Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 4937–4948 Barcelona, Spain (Online), December 8-13, 2020.
- Mirsky, R., Macke, W., Wang, A., Yedidsion, H., & Stone, P. (2020). A penny for your thoughts: The value of communication in ad hoc teamwork. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
- M. L. Chang, T. K. Faulkner, T. B. Wei, E. S. Short, G. Anandaraman, A. L. Thomaz. "TASC: Teammate Algorithm for Shared Cooperation". IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Online, October 2020.
- A. D. Allevato, E. S. Short, M. Pryor, A. L. Thomaz. "Iterative residual tuning for system identification and sim-to-real robot learning". Autonomous Robots, Volumn 44, Issue 7, Pages 1167-1182, September 2020.
- M. L. Chang, Z. Pope, E. S. Short, A. L. Thomaz. "Defining Fairness in Human-Robot Teams". IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), Online, 2020.
- T. Kessler Faulkner, E. Short, A. Thomaz. "Interactive Reinforcement Learning with Inaccurate Feedback". International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Online, May 2020.
- S.Y. Lo, E. Short, A. Thomaz. "Planning with Partner Uncertainty Modeling for Efficient Information Revealing in Teamwork". ACM/IEEE Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Online, March 2020.
- A. Allevato, E. Short, M. Pryor, A. Thomaz. "Learning Labeled Robot Affordance Models by using Simulations and Crowdsourcing". Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), Online, July 2020.
- Vasanth Sarathy, Alexander Tsuetaki, Antonio Roque, Matthias Scheutz (2020). Reasoning Requirements for Indirect Speech Act Interpretation. Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 4937–4948 Barcelona, Spain (Online), December 8-13, 2020.
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- Vasanth Sarathy, Thomas Arnold, and Matthias Scheutz (2019). When Exceptions Are the Norm: Exploring the Role of Consent in HRI. ACMTransactions on Human-Robot Interaction, Vol. 8, No. 3, Article 14. Publication date: July 2019.
- C. Bethel, M. Bruijnes, M. Jung, C. Mavrogiannis,S. Parsons, C. Pelachaud, R. Prada,L. Riek, S. Strohkorb Sebo, J. Shah, E. Short, M. Vazquez. "Working Group on Social Cognition for Robots and Virtual Agents". Dagstuhl Reports, Volume 9, Issue 10, Seminar on Social Agents for Teamwork and Group Interactions, October 2019.
- A. Allevato, E. Short, M. Pryor, and A. L. Thomaz. “TuneNet: One-Shot Residual Tuning for System Identification and Sim-to-Real Robot Task Transfer”. Conference on Robot Learning (CORL), Osaka, Japan, 2019.
- A. Saran, E. Short, A. L. Thomaz, and S. Niekum. “Understanding Teacher Gaze Patterns for Robot Learning”. Conference on Robot Learning (CORL) , Osaka, Japan, 2019.
- T. Fitzgerald, E. Short, A. Goel, and A. L. Thomaz. “Human-guided Trajectory Adaptation for Tool Transfer”. International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) , Montreal, Canada, 2019.
- T. Kessler Faulkner, R. A. Gutierrez, E. Short, G. Hoffman, and A. L. Thomaz. “Active Attention-Modified Policy Shaping”. International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) , Mon- treal, Canada, 2019.
- E. Short, A. Allevato, and A. L. Thomaz. “SAIL: Simulation-Informed Active In-the-Wild Learning”. ACM/IEEE Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) , Daegu, South Korea, 2019.
- Vasanth Sarathy, Thomas Arnold, and Matthias Scheutz (2019). When Exceptions Are the Norm: Exploring the Role of Consent in HRI. ACMTransactions on Human-Robot Interaction, Vol. 8, No. 3, Article 14. Publication date: July 2019.