I’m a third-year Robotics Ph.D. Student at the Colorado School of Mines and work at the MIRRORLab with Tom Williams as my advisor. I graduated magna cum laude from Franklin & Marshall College in 2021 with a double major in Computer Science and Mathematics.

My research focuses on the implementation and evaluation of cognitive models of working memory applied to cognitive architectures for language-capable robots. The way in which working memory information is organized and updated influences important natural language processes, such as referring expression generation. Through a cognitive architectural approach, my research goal is to borrow inspiration from cognitive psychology working memory theories to enable robotic natural language that is human-like, accurate, natural, easy to understand, and computationally inexpensive.