Chinmaya Mishra

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Multimodal Language Department at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. I make use of artificial agents such as social robots and virtual avatars to study how we use multimodal language in face-to-face communication and how these agents can learn to behave in more human-like manner. My research uses an interdisciplinary approach by combining insights from psychology, psycholinguistics, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science in finding novel solutions to model/ automate robot behaviors that are needed to facilitate a seamless Human-robot Interactions (HRI). The broader goal that I pursue through my research is to make robots easier to be integrated into our society which enable us to be more efficient and comfortable.

Before joining MLD, I concluded my PhD research at Furhat Robotics as a Marie Curie PhD Fellow (Project: Conversational Brains), where I investigated ways to automate the gaze and affective behaviors of Social Robots and gauge the influence of these robot behaviors on HRI.