Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Computer Science, Colorado School of Mines
1500 Illinois St., Golden, CO 80401, USA zhaohan[delete this]@[delete this]mines.edu zhaohanphd.com 8/7/2022
Mission: Develop capable robotic systems and understandable robot interactions with humans
Areas: Human-robot interaction (HRI), robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), augmented reality (AR)
Expertise: Explainable AI, robot explanation, mobile manipulation, projection mapping (projected AR), referring form selection, robot competition, robot failures, human-robot handovers, interpretable robot task representation, behavior trees, robot ethics, mental workload, teleoperation, assistive robotics
2016–2021 | Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA |
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2014–2016 | M.S. Computer Science, University of Manitoba, Canada |
2009–2013 | B.S. Computer Science (Honours, three co-op terms), University of Manitoba, Canada |
8/2021→ | Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Computer Science, Colorado School of Mines |
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8/2022–12/2022 | Adjunct Faculty†, Department of Computer Science, Colorado School of Mines |
5/2018–4/2021 | Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Lowell |
9/2016–4/2018 | Teaching Assistant†, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Lowell |
5/2015–4/2016 | Marker/Teaching Assistant†, Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba, Canada |
5/2013–8/2013 | Software Developer‡, Payment Processing, iQmetrix (300+ employees), Winnipeg, Canada |
9/2012–12/2012 | App. Developer‡, Twitter & Facebook, Blackberry (3700+ employees), Ottawa, Canada |
1/2012–4/2012 | App. Developer (Web, Co-op)‡, Wawanesa Insurance (2700+ employees), Winnipeg, Canada |
†Teaching Experience is described in its own section.
‡Non-academia employment is detailed in the Industry Experience section.
7/2022 | Best Long-Paper Award |
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4/2022 | Elected Councilor, Mathematics & Computer Sciences Division (3-year term, 7/1/2022–6/30/2025) |
3/2022 | Third Prize, Best Late Breaking Report (LBR) Award |
6/2020 | Finalist (Proposal Writer & Team Lead)
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5/2020 | First Place (Proposal Writer & Team Lead)
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5/2019 | Second Place (Team Description Writer & Team Lead)
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9/2016 | Full Teaching Assistantship, University of Massachusetts
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Zhao Han, Elizabeth Phillips (GMU, Psychology), and Holly Yanco. “The Need for Verbal Robot Explanations and How People Would Like a Robot to Explain Itself.” ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI), 10(4), 2021. Top HRI journal.
Alexander Wilkinson, Michael Gonzales, Patrick Hoey, David Kontak, Dian Wang, Noah Torname, Sam Laderoute, Zhao Han, Jordan Allspaw, Robert Platt, and Holly Yanco. “Design guidelines for human–robot interaction with assistive robot manipulation systems.” Paladyn, Journal of Behavioral Robotics, 12(1), 2021. Open access.
Zhao Han, Daniel Giger, Jordan Allspaw, Michael S. Lee (CMU), Henny Admoni (CMU), and Holly A. Yanco. “Building The Foundation of Robot Explanation Generation Using Behavior Trees.” ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI), 10(3), 2021. Invited talk at Georgia Tech. Top HRI journal.
Ruchen Wen, Zhao Han and Tom Williams. “Teacher, Teammate, Subordinate, Friend: Generating Norm Violation Responses Grounded in Role-based Relational Norms,” 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2022. Top HRI conference. 24% acceptance rate.
Zhao Han, Adam Norton, Eric McCann, Lisa Baraniecki, Will Ober, Dave Shane, Anna Skinner, and Holly A. Yanco. “Investigation of Multiple Resource Theory Design Principles on Robot Teleoperation and Workload Management.” 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2021. Top Robotics conference. 49% acceptance rate (1946/4005).
Tyler Frasca* (Tufts), Zhao Han*, Jordan Allspaw, Holly Yanco, and Matthias Scheutz (Tufts). “Going Cognitive: A Demonstration of the Utility of Task-General Cognitive Architecture for Adaptive Robotic Task Performance.” 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2020. * Equal contribution. Top Robotics conference. 47% acceptance rate (1409/2996).
Zhao Han, Jordan Allspaw, Gregory LeMasurier, Jenna Parrillo, Daniel Giger, S. Reza Ahmadzadeh, and Holly A. Yanco. “Towards Mobile Multi-Task Manipulation in a Confined and Integrated Environment with Irregular Objects.” 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2020. Top Robotics conference. 42% acceptance rate (1483/3512).
Zhao Han and Holly Yanco. “The Effects of Proactive Release Behaviors During Human-Robot Handovers.” 2019 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2019. Top HRI conference. 28% acceptance rate.
Patrick M. J. Dubois, Zhao Han, Fan Jiang, and Carson K. Leung. “An Interactive Circular Visual Analytic Tool for Visualization of Web Data.” IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI), 2016.
Zhao Han and Carson K. Leung. “FIMaaS: Scalable Frequent Itemset Mining-as-a-Service on Cloud for Non-Expert Miners.” International Conference on Big Data Applications and Services (BigDAS), ACM, 2015.
Alfredo Cuzzocrea, Zhao Han, Fan Jiang, Carson K. Leung and Hao Zhang. “Edge-based Mining of Frequent Subgraphs from Graph Streams.” Procedia Computer Science 60, special issue of KES 2015, 2015.
Zhao Han and Tom Williams. “Towards Formalizing HRI Data Collection Processes.” The 4th Annual Workshop on Novel and Emerging Test Methods & Metrics for Effective HRI at HRI 2022, 2022
Zhao Han*, Albert Phan*, Amia Castro*, Fernando Sandoval Garza* and Tom Williams. “Towards an Understanding of Physical vs Virtual Robot Appendage Design.” 2022 International Workshop on Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed-Reality for Human-Robot Interactions at HRI 2022 (VAM-HRI), 2022. * Equal contribution
Gregory LeMasurier, Alvika Gautam, Zhao Han, Jacob W. Crandall, Holly A. Yanco. ““Why Didn’t I Do It?” A Study Design to Evaluate Robot Explanations.” HRI 2022 Workshop YOUR study design! Participatory critique and refinement of participants’ studies, 2022.
Zhao Han, Boyoung Kim (GMU, Psychology), Holly A. Yanco, and Tom Williams. “Causal Robot Communication Inspired by Observational Learning Insights.” 2022 AAAI Spring Symposium on Closing the Assessment Loop: Communicating Proficiency and Intent in Human-Robot Teaming, 2022.
Zhao Han and Tom Williams. “A Task Design for Studying Referring Behaviors for Linguistic HRI.” 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Late-Breaking Report (LBR), 2022. Third Prize, Best Late Breaking Report (LBR) Award (3/103).
Zhao Han and Holly A. Yanco. “Reasons People Want Explanations After Unrecoverable Pre-Handover Failures.” 2020 IEEE ICRA Workshop on Human-Robot Handovers, 2020. Handover community engagement.
Zhao Han. “Robot Explanations: Preferences, Generation, and Communication”. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA. 2021.
Zhao Han. “Delivering Scalable Frequent Pattern Mining for Non-Expert Data Miners”. M.S. Thesis, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada. 2016.
Reuth Mirsky, Megan Zimmerman, Muneed Ahmad, Shelly Bagchi, Felix Gervits, Zhao Han, Justin Hart, Daniel Hernández García, Matteo Leonetti, Ross Mead, Emmanuel Senft, Jivko Sinapov, Jason Wilson “Proceedings of the AI-HRI Symposium at AAAI-FSS 2021.” 2021.
Shelly Bagchi, Jason R. Wilson, Muneeb I. Ahmad, Christian Dondrup, Zhao Han, Justin W. Hart, Matteo Leonetti, Katrin Lohan, Ross Mead, Emmanuel Senft, Jivko Sinapov and Megan L. Zimmerman. “Proceedings of the AI-HRI Symposium at AAAI-FSS 2020.” 2020.
Zhao Han and Holly Yanco. “Investigating Human-Robot Handover Release Behaviors.” 2018 New England Manipulation Symposium, 2018. Poster.
2019–2020 | Human-Aware Projection Mapping for Robot Intention |
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2019–2020 | Detecting and Removing Small Ground Object Hazards with 3D LiDAR on a Mobile Manipulator |
2018–2019 | Mobile Multi-Task Manipulation in a Confined and Integrated Environment with Irregular Objects |
2021–2022 |
Open Access Pilot Mini-Grant |
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Instructor for 1 course and 3 labs, Teaching Assistant for 10 courses (4 guest lectures).
8/2022→ | Instructor, Augmented Reality (4th year and graduate), Colorado School of Mines |
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9/2018– | Teaching Assistant, Artificial Intelligence (4th year), University of Massachusetts Lowell
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1/2018– | Teaching Assistant, Mobile Robotics I (4th year), University of Massachusetts Lowell
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9/2017– | Instructor/Teaching Assistant, Computing I Lab (1st year), University of Massachusetts Lowell
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1/2017– | Instructor/Teaching Assistant, Computing II Lab (1st year), University of Massachusetts Lowell
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9/2016– | Teaching Assistant, Software Architecture (3rd year), University of Massachusetts Lowell
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1/2016– | Marker, Object-Orientation (2nd year), University of Manitoba
Teaching Assistant/Marker, Advanced Artificial Intelligence (4th year), University of Manitoba
Instructor/Teaching Assistant, Programming Practices Lab (2nd year), University of Manitoba
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9/2015– | Marker, Databases: Concepts and Usage (3rd year), University of Manitoba
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5/2015– | Marker, Object-Orientation (2nd year), University of Manitoba
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Two graduates. 17 undergraduates ( underrepresented, 8 females♀), 5 led to 6 refereed publications.
5/2022→ | Yifei (Rena) Zhu♀, (1st year Ph.D. student). Comparing AR robot arm with physical robot arm. |
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8/2021→ | Ruchen (Puck) Wen♀ (3rd year Ph.D. student, 1 paper). Research and career advice. |
8/2021→ | Fernando Sandoval Garza (1 paper). Comparing AR robot arm with physical robot arm. |
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8/2021– | Grace Clark♀. Givenness Hierarchy-informed theoretic referential choice for linguistic robots. |
8/2021– |
Aly Ranucci♀. Category transitions between deictic and non-deictic spatial gestures. |
2020 |
Alexander Wilkinson (3 papers – 1 journal). Projection mapping for tabletop manipulation intent. |
5/2019– |
Jenna Parrillo♀ (3 papers). Near-table navigation. Projection mapping for navigation intent. |
2019 |
Gregory LeMasurier (1 paper; Started Ph.D. in 2021). Door handle manipulation and robotics simulation. |
4/18/2022 | Mentor workshop “Centering Equity and Inclusion in Undergraduate Research Mentoring” |
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4/18/2022 | Poster Presentation Judge, 2022 Undergraduate Research Symposium
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8/2022→ | Planning Committee Member |
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4/2022→ |
General Co-Chair
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3/2022→ |
Co-Organizer |
4/2022– |
Area Chair |
4/2022→ | Councilor, the Mathematics and Computer Sciences Division (3-year term, 7/1/2022-6/30/2025)
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3/2022→ | Committee Member, Public Policy Subcommittee, NPA Advocacy Committee |
2/2022– |
Lead Principal Co-Organizer, Special Session on Computational Advances in HRI
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1/2022→ |
Standards Voting Member, P3107 – Standard Terminology for Human-Robot Interaction |
12/2021→ |
Subgroup Co-Chair & Standards Voting Member, P3108 – Recommended Practice for HRI Design of Human Subject Studies
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12/2021→ |
Guest Editor, Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence for Human-Robot Interaction
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4/2020– |
Co-Organizer, Program Co-Chair, Session Chair
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2019→ |
Professional Society Member
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Journal
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Conference
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Symposium, Workshop, and Late-Breaking Report
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3/2022→ |
Program Committee Member |
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2/15/2022 |
Workshop Presentor, Interactive Workshop “Solidarity, Not Model Minority”
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1/2022→ |
Planning Committee Member
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11/2021→ |
Founding Chair
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10/2021→ |
Founding Officer
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9/2016– |
Vice President (2017 – 2019) & Member (2016)
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6/24/2022 |
Lecture for 6th-10th Grade Students (1 hour)
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5/17/2022 |
Co-Presenter to External Advisory Board
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2/26/2022 |
Interactive Activity Presenter
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11/16/2021 |
STEM Fair Presenter
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10/27/2019 |
Department Tour Guide
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8/9/2018 |
Research Center Tour Guide
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4/28/2018 |
Judge
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1/17/2018– |
Technical Workshop Assistant
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2011 | Contributor, Translator, KDE UserBase Wiki |
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2009-10 | Photographer, The Manitoban Newspaper (University student newspaper) |
6/2009 | Organizer Assistant, Manitoba Marathon |
Excluding presentations of papers listed in the publications section above
3/2022 | Invited Panelist. Explainability Panel, 2022 AAAI Spring Symposium on Closing the Assessment Loop: Communicating Proficiency and Intent in Human-Robot Teaming, Stanford, CA. |
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11/2021 | Invited Talk. “State Summarization With Behavior Trees for Explanation Generation & Communicating Causal Information of Past Actions”, ONR MURI Grant Annual Review, Virtual. |
10/2021 | Elevator Pitch. “Application of Projection-Based Augmented Reality for Autonomous Driving,” Front Range Industry & Postdoc Summit (FRIPS), Golden, CO. |
5/2021 | Invited Talk. “Robot Explanation Generation Using Behavior Trees”, Georgia Tech, Virtual. |
4/2021 | Invited Talk. “Robot Explanation, AR, and Multiple Resource Theory”, Colorado School of Mines, Virtual. |
2/2021 | Lighting Talk. “Communicating Missing Information of Robots’ Past Actions”, Office of Naval Research (ONR) Multidisciplinary University Research Initiatives (MURI) Grant Student Meeting, Virtual. |
8/2020 | Integration Talk. Zhao Han and Michael Lee (CMU). “Using Behavior Trees to Improve Human’s Understanding of Agent Behavior”, ONR MURI Grant Annual Review, Lowell, MA. |
8/2020 | Integration Talk and Demo. Zhao Han and Tyler Frasca (Tufts). “Going Cognitive: A Demonstration of the Utility of Task-General Cognitive Architectures for Adaptive Robotic Task Performance”, ONR MURI Grant Annual Review, Lowell, MA. |
11/2019 | Grant Progress Talk. “Towards Explainable Robots: Realizing A Robot Explanation System, Investigating Preferred Robot Explanations”, ONR MURI Grant Annual Review, Lowell, MA. |
9/2018 | Invited Guest Lecturer. “Ininformed Search Algorithms”, Artificial Intelligence, UMass Lowell, Lowell, MA. |
6/2018 | Lighting Talk. “Investigating Human-Robot Handover Release Behaviors”, 2018 New England Manipulation Symposium, Yale University, New Haven, CT. |
2/2016 | Guest Lecturer. “Bayesian Reasoning”, “Markov Chains”, and “Rapidly Exploring Random Trees”, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada. |
2021 | ROS Discourse, “ROS News for the Week of 12/13/2021 (Projecting Robot Navigation Paths)”, December 2021. |
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2020 | MassRobotics, “Analog Devices Sensor Fusion Challenge“, June 2020. |
2020 | MassRobotics, “Panasonic Prototype 3D LiDAR Challenge“, May 2020. |
2019 |
ONR MURI SUCCESS Project, “Annual Review Meeting 2019“, December 2019. |
2019 |
ONR MURI SUCCESS Project, “Summer 2019 Hacking and Integration“, August 2019. |
2019 |
Inside Logistics (Canada), “Fetch rewards university team in manipulation challenge“, May 2019. |
2019 |
Bloomberg, The Associated Press, Robotics Tomorrow, Business Wire, “Winner of Fetch Robotics FetchIt! Challenge Executes Complex Manufacturing Tasks Using Autonomous Mobile Robotic Arm“, May 2019. |
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Today’s Medical Developments, “Fetch Robotics FetchIt! Mobile Manipulation Challenge winners“, May 2019. |
5/2013– | Software Developer, iQmetrix, Winnipeg, Canada
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9/2012– |
Blackberry Software Developer, Research in Motion, Ottawa, Canada
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1/2012– | Application Developer (Co-op), Wawanesa Insurance, Winnipeg, Canada
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GitHub: github.com/umhan35/
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Dr. Holly Yanco (Ph.D. Advisor)
AAAI Fellow, Distinguished University Professor, NERVE Center Director, Department of Computer Science, UMass Lowell, Lowell, MA
E-mail: holly_yanco[delete this]@[delete this]uml.edu, office phone: (978) 934-3642
Dr. Aaron Steinfeld (Carnegie Mellon University)
Associate Research Professor, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
E-mail: steinfeld[delete this]@[delete this]cmu.edu, office phone: (412) 268-6346
Dr. Reza Ahmadzadeh
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, UMass Lowell, Lowell, MA
E-mail: reza_ahmadzadeh[delete this]@[delete this]uml.edu, office phone: (978) 934-6175
Dr. Elizabeth Phillips (George Mason University)
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
E-mail: ephill3[delete this]@[delete this]gmu.edu, office phone: (703) 993-1384