Jessie Yuan

I am a senior studying computer science at Carnegie Mellon, broadly interested in human-robot interaction and robot learning.

I am fortunate to be working with Prof. Andrea Bajcsy on uncertainty quantification and continual learning in robotic policy steering. Previously, I had the pleasure of working with Prof. Zackory Erickson on developing novel interfaces for assistive robotics.

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Publications
waffle WAFFLE: A Wearable Approach to Bite Timing Estimation in Robot-Assisted Feeding
Akhil Padmanabha*, Jessie Yuan*, Tanisha Mehta, Rajat Kumar Jenamani, Eric Hu, Victoria de Léon, Anthony Wertz, Janavi Gupta, Ben Dodson, Yunting Yan, Carmel Majidi, Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee†, Zackory Erickson†
The ACM/IEEE Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2026
arXiv / video / website
voicepilot VoicePilot: Harnessing LLMs as Speech Interfaces for Physically Assistive Robots
Akhil Padmanabha*, Jessie Yuan*, Janavi Gupta, Zulekha Karachiwalla, Carmel Majidi, Henny Admoni, Zackory Erickson
The ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), 2024
arXiv / video / website / oral presentation
voicepilot_demo Towards an LLM-Based Speech Interface for Robot-Assisted Feeding
Jessie Yuan, Janavi Gupta, Akhil Padmanabha, Zulekha Karachiwalla, Carmel Majidi, Henny Admoni, Zackory Erickson
The ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) Adjunct, 2024
arXiv

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