My long-term interests are (were?) to create models that successfully communicate and cooperate with humans.

theory of minds Developed a generative model of multiagent action understanding based on a novel representation for underlying social team structures called Composable Team Hierarchies (CTH). Presented as oral at AAAI 2019.

cooperate to compete Constructed models of strategic planning that can form joint intentions in fully-observable settings using reinforcement learning and Bayesian theory-of-mind.

rap lyric generation Used LSTMs trained on phonemes to generate rap lyrics that adhere to general standards of rhyme and flow.