| 2026 | HRI | Older Adult Perspectives on Home Monitoring Robots: User Preferences and Performance of Robot Observation Strategies. | Nadira Mahamane, Sonia Chernova |
| 2025 | CHI | Playing Dumb to Get Smart: Creating and Evaluating an LLM-based Teachable Agent within University Computer Science Classes. | Kantwon Rogers, Michael Davis, Mallesh Maharana, Pete Etheredge, Sonia Chernova |
| 2025 | RO-MAN | A Model-Agnostic Approach for Semantically Driven Disambiguation in Human-Robot Interaction. | Fethiye Irmak Dogan, Maithili Patel, Weiyu Liu, Iolanda Leite, Sonia Chernova |
| 2025 | RO-MAN | Personalized Robotic Object Rearrangement from Scene Context. | Kartik Ramachandruni, Sonia Chernova |
| 2023 | CoRL | Predicting Routine Object Usage for Proactive Robot Assistance. | Maithili Patel, Aswin Gururaj Prakash, Sonia Chernova |
| 2023 | HRI | Semantic Scene Understanding for Human-Robot Interaction. | Maithili Patel, Fethiye Irmak Dogan, Zhen Zeng, Kim Baraka, Sonia Chernova |
| 2023 | ICMLA | ALLFA: Active Learning Through Label and Feature Augmentation. | Yasutaka Nishimura, Naoto Takeda, Roberto Legaspi, Kazushi Ikeda, Thomas Pltz, Sonia Chernova |
| 2023 | IJCAI | Creative Problem Solving in Artificially Intelligent Agents: A Survey and Framework (Extended Abstract). | Evana Gizzi, Lakshmi Nair, Sonia Chernova, Jivko Sinapov |
| 2023 | IROS | ConSOR: A Context-Aware Semantic Object Rearrangement Framework for Partially Arranged Scenes. | Kartik Ramachandruni, Max Zuo, Sonia Chernova |
| 2023 | IUI | Subgoal-Based Explanations for Unreliable Intelligent Decision Support Systems. | Devleena Das, Been Kim, Sonia Chernova |
| 2023 | PERCOM | Extraction of Important Temporal Order for eXplainable AI on Time-series data. | Yasutaka Nishimura, Naoto Takeda, Roberto Legaspi, Kazushi Ikeda, Thomas Pltz, Sonia Chernova |
| 2023 | RO-MAN | Benefits of Multi-Objective Trajectory Adaptation in Close-Proximity Human-Robot Interaction. | Oscar Jed Chuy, Hritik Sapra, Xiang Zhi Tan, Harish Ravichandar, Sonia Chernova |
| 2022 | CoRL | Proactive Robot Assistance via Spatio-Temporal Object Modeling. | Maithili Patel, Sonia Chernova |
| 2022 | CoRL | Rethinking Sim2Real: Lower Fidelity Simulation Leads to Higher Sim2Real Transfer in Navigation. | Joanne Truong, Max Rudolph, Naoki Yokoyama, Sonia Chernova, Dhruv Batra, Akshara Rai |
| 2022 | IROS | Explainable Knowledge Graph Embedding: Inference Reconciliation for Knowledge Inferences Supporting Robot Actions. | Angel Andres Daruna, Devleena Das, Sonia Chernova |
| 2022 | RO-MAN | Leveraging Cognitive States in Human-Robot Teaming. | Jack Kolb, Harish Ravichandar, Sonia Chernova |
| 2021 | HRI | Explainable AI for Robot Failures: Generating Explanations that Improve User Assistance in Fault Recovery. | Devleena Das, Siddhartha Banerjee, Sonia Chernova |
| 2021 | HRI | Toward a One-interaction Data-driven Guide: Putting Co-speech Gesture Evidence to Work for Ambiguous Route Instructions. | Nicholas DePalma, Harrison Jesse Smith, Sonia Chernova, Jessica K. Hodgins |
| 2021 | ICRA | Towards Robust One-shot Task Execution using Knowledge Graph Embeddings. | Angel Andres Daruna, Lakshmi Nair, Weiyu Liu, Sonia Chernova |
| 2021 | IROS | Semantic-Based Explainable AI: Leveraging Semantic Scene Graphs and Pairwise Ranking to Explain Robot Failures. | Devleena Das, Sonia Chernova |
| 2021 | IROS | An Interleaved Approach to Trait-Based Task Allocation and Scheduling. | Glen Neville, Andrew Messing, Harish Ravichandar, Seth Hutchinson, Sonia Chernova |
| 2021 | IROS | Towards Coordinated Robot Motions: End-to-End Learning of Motion Policies on Transform Trees. | Muhammad Asif Rana, Anqi Li, Dieter Fox, Sonia Chernova, Byron Boots, Nathan D. Ratliff |
| 2021 | IROS | Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures: Towards Risk-Adaptive Task Allocation. | Max Rudolph, Sonia Chernova, Harish Ravichandar |
| 2021 | IROS | Learning Navigation Skills for Legged Robots with Learned Robot Embeddings. | Joanne Truong, Denis Yarats, Tianyu Li, Franziska Meier, Sonia Chernova, Dhruv Batra, Akshara Rai |
| 2021 | RO-MAN | Predicting Individual Human Performance in Human-Robot Teaming. | Jack Kolb, Mayank Kishore, Kenneth Shaw, Harish Ravichandar, Sonia Chernova |
| 2020 | AAAI | Path Ranking with Attention to Type Hierarchies. | Weiyu Liu, Angel Andres Daruna, Zsolt Kira, Sonia Chernova |
| 2020 | CoRL | Learning Hierarchical Task Networks with Preferences from Unannotated Demonstrations. | Kevin Chen, Nithin Shrivatsav Srikanth, David Kent, Harish Ravichandar, Sonia Chernova |
| 2020 | CoRL | Same Object, Different Grasps: Data and Semantic Knowledge for Task-Oriented Grasping. | Adithyavairavan Murali, Weiyu Liu, Kenneth Marino, Sonia Chernova, Abhinav Gupta |
| 2020 | ICRA | Human-Centric Active Perception for Autonomous Observation. | David Kent, Sonia Chernova |
| 2020 | ICRA | CAGE: Context-Aware Grasping Engine. | Weiyu Liu, Angel Andres Daruna, Sonia Chernova |
| 2020 | ICRA | Benchmark for Skill Learning from Demonstration: Impact of User Experience, Task Complexity, and Start Configuration on Performance. | Muhammad Asif Rana, Daphne Chen, Jacob Williams, Vivian Chu, Seyed Reza Ahmadzadeh, Sonia Chernova |
| 2020 | IROS | Multimodal Material Classification for Robots using Spectroscopy and High Resolution Texture Imaging. | Zackory Erickson, Eliot Xing, Bharat Srirangam, Sonia Chernova, Charles C. Kemp |
| 2020 | IROS | Anticipatory Human-Robot Collaboration via Multi-Objective Trajectory Optimization. | Abhinav Jain, Daphne Chen, Dhruva Bansal, Sam Scheele, Mayank Kishore, Hritik Sapra, David Kent, Harish Ravichandar, Sonia Chernova |
| 2020 | IROS | Approximated Dynamic Trait Models for Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Teams. | Glen Neville, Harish Ravichandar, Kenneth Shaw, Sonia Chernova |
| 2020 | IUI | Leveraging rationales to improve human task performance. | Devleena Das, Sonia Chernova |
| 2020 | RO-MAN | A Tale of Two Suggestions: Action and Diagnosis Recommendations for Responding to Robot Failure. | Siddhartha Banerjee, Matthew C. Gombolay, Sonia Chernova |
| 2019 | CoRL | Learning Reactive Motion Policies in Multiple Task Spaces from Human Demonstrations. | Muhammad Asif Rana, Anqi Li, Harish Ravichandar, Mustafa Mukadam, Sonia Chernova, Dieter Fox, Byron Boots, Nathan D. Ratliff |
| 2019 | IJCAI | Active Learning within Constrained Environments through Imitation of an Expert Questioner. | Kalesha Bullard, Yannick Schroecker, Sonia Chernova |
| 2019 | ICRA | Real-time Multisensory Affordance-based Control for Adaptive Object Manipulation. | Vivian Chu, Reymundo A. Gutierrez, Sonia Chernova, Andrea Lockerd Thomaz |
| 2019 | ICRA | RoboCSE: Robot Common Sense Embedding. | Angel Andres Daruna, Weiyu Liu, Zsolt Kira, Sonia Chernova |
| 2019 | ICRA | Tool Macgyvering: Tool Construction Using Geometric Reasoning. | Lakshmi Nair, Jonathan C. Balloch, Sonia Chernova |
| 2019 | ICRA | Skill Acquisition via Automated Multi-Coordinate Cost Balancing. | Harish Ravichandar, Seyed Reza Ahmadzadeh, Muhammad Asif Rana, Sonia Chernova |
| 2019 | ISRR | Taking Recoveries to Task: Recovery-Driven Development for Recipe-Based Robot Tasks. | Siddhartha Banerjee, Angel Andres Daruna, David Kent, Weiyu Liu, Jonathan C. Balloch, Abhinav Jain, Akshay Krishnan, Muhammad Asif Rana, Harish Ravichandar, Binit Shah, Nithin Shrivatsav Srikanth, Sonia Chernova |
| 2019 | RO-MAN | Effectiveness of Robot Communication Level on Likeability, Understandability and Comfortability. | Nupur Chatterji, Courtney Allen, Sonia Chernova |
| 2019 | RO-MAN | Human Trust After Robot Mistakes: Study of the Effects of Different Forms of Robot Communication. | Sean Ye, Glen Neville, Mariah Schrum, Matthew C. Gombolay, Sonia Chernova, Ayanna M. Howard |
| 2018 | HRI | Efficient Human-Robot Interaction for Robust Autonomy in Task Execution. | Siddhartha Banerjee, Sonia Chernova |
| 2018 | ICRA | Human-Driven Feature Selection for a Robotic Agent Learning Classification Tasks from Demonstration. | Kalesha Bullard, Sonia Chernova, Andrea Lockerd Thomaz |
| 2018 | IROS | Towards Intelligent Arbitration of Diverse Active Learning Queries. | Kalesha Bullard, Andrea Lockerd Thomaz, Sonia Chernova |
| 2018 | IROS | Learning Generalizable Robot Skills from Demonstrations in Cluttered Environments. | Muhammad Asif Rana, Mustafa Mukadam, Seyed Reza Ahmadzadeh, Sonia Chernova, Byron Boots |
| 2017 | CoRL | Semi-Supervised Haptic Material Recognition for Robots using Generative Adversarial Networks. | Zackory Erickson, Sonia Chernova, Charles C. Kemp |
| 2017 | CoRL | Towards Robust Skill Generalization: Unifying Learning from Demonstration and Motion Planning. | Muhammad Asif Rana, Mustafa Mukadam, Seyed Reza Ahmadzadeh, Sonia Chernova, Byron Boots |
| 2017 | HRI | A Comparison of Remote Robot Teleoperation Interfaces for General Object Manipulation. | David Kent, Carl Saldanha, Sonia Chernova |
| 2017 | HRI | SLHAP: Simultaneous Learning of Hierarchy and Primitives. | Anahita Mohseni-Kabir, Changshuo Li, Victoria Wu, Daniel Miller, Benjamin Hylak, Sonia Chernova, Dmitry Berenson, Candace L. Sidner, Charles Rich |
| 2017 | ICRA | Temporal persistence modeling for object search. | Russell Toris, Sonia Chernova |
| 2017 | ISRR | Situated Bayesian Reasoning Framework for Robots Operating in Diverse Everyday Environments. | Sonia Chernova, Vivian Chu, Angel Andres Daruna, Haley Garrison, Meera Hahn, Priyanka Khante, Weiyu Liu, Andrea Thomaz |
| 2016 | HRI | Identifying Reusable Primitives in Narrated Demonstrations. | Anahita Mohseni-Kabir, Sonia Chernova, Charles Rich |
| 2016 | RO-MAN | Grounding action parameters from demonstration. | Kalesha Bullard, Baris Akgn, Sonia Chernova, Andrea Lockerd Thomaz |
| 2016 | RO-MAN | What's in a primitive? Identifying reusable motion trajectories in narrated demonstrations. | Anahita Mohseni-Kabir, Victoria Wu, Sonia Chernova, Charles Rich |
| 2015 | AAAI | Solving and Explaining Analogy Questions Using Semantic Networks. | Adrian Boteanu, Sonia Chernova |
| 2015 | HRI | Interactive Hierarchical Task Learning from a Single Demonstration. | Anahita Mohseni-Kabir, Charles Rich, Sonia Chernova, Candace L. Sidner, Daniel Miller |
| 2015 | IJCAI | Reinforcement Learning from Demonstration through Shaping. | Tim Brys, Anna Harutyunyan, Halit Bener Suay, Sonia Chernova, Matthew E. Taylor, Ann Now |
| 2015 | IROS | Robot Web Tools: Efficient messaging for cloud robotics. | Russell Toris, Julius Kammerl, David V. Lu, Jihoon Lee, Odest Chadwicke Jenkins, Sarah Osentoski, Mitchell Wills, Sonia Chernova |
| 2015 | ICRA | Unsupervised learning of multi-hypothesized pick-and-place task templates via crowdsourcing. | Russell Toris, David Kent, Sonia Chernova |
| 2014 | HRI | Workshop on algorithmic human-robot interaction. | Brenna D. Argall, Sonia Chernova, Kris K. Hauser, Chad Jenkins |
| 2014 | HRI | Learning partial ordering constraints from a single demonstration. | Anahita Mohseni-Kabir, Charles Rich, Sonia Chernova |
| 2014 | ICRA | DARPA Robotics Challenge: Towards a user-guided manipulation framework for high-DOF robots. | Nicholas Alunni, Halit Bener Suay, Calder Phillips-Grafflin, Jim Mainprice, Dmitry Berenson, Sonia Chernova, Robert W. Lindeman, Daniel M. Lofaro, Paul Y. Oh |
| 2014 | ICRA | Crowdsourcing the construction of a 3D object recognition database for robotic grasping. | David Kent, Morteza Behrooz, Sonia Chernova |
| 2014 | IROS | Construction of an object manipulation database from grasp demonstrations. | David Kent, Sonia Chernova |
| 2014 | IROS | From autonomy to cooperative traded control of humanoid manipulation tasks with unreliable communication: System design and lessons learned. | Jim Mainprice, Calder Phillips-Grafflin, Halit Bener Suay, Nicholas Alunni, Daniel M. Lofaro, Dmitry Berenson, Sonia Chernova, Robert W. Lindeman, Paul Y. Oh |
| 2013 | IUI | Modeling discussion topics in interactions with a tablet reading primer. | Adrian Boteanu, Sonia Chernova |
| 2012 | HRI | Policy transformation for learning from demonstration. | Halit Bener Suay, Sonia Chernova |
| 2012 | HRI | A practical comparison of three robot learning from demonstration algorithms. | Russell Toris, Halit Bener Suay, Sonia Chernova |
| 2011 | HRI | Humanoid robot control using depth camera. | Halit Bener Suay, Sonia Chernova |
| 2011 | SMC | A comparison of two algorithms for robot learning from demonstration. | Halit Bener Suay, Sonia Chernova |
| 2011 | RO-MAN | Crowdsourcing human-robot interaction: Application from virtual to physical worlds. | Sonia Chernova, Nick DePalma, Elisabeth Morant, Cynthia Breazeal |
| 2011 | RO-MAN | Effect of human guidance and state space size on Interactive Reinforcement Learning. | Halit Bener Suay, Sonia Chernova |
| 2009 | HRI | Mobile human-robot teaming with environmental tolerance. | Matthew Maverick Loper, Nathan P. Koenig, Sonia Chernova, Chris V. Jones, Odest Chadwicke Jenkins |
| 2008 | HRI | Multi-thresholded approach to demonstration selection for interactive robot learning. | Sonia Chernova, Manuela M. Veloso |
| 2008 | IROS | Learning equivalent action choices from demonstration. | Sonia Chernova, Manuela M. Veloso |
| 2005 | EPIA | Acquiring Observation Models Through Reverse Plan Monitoring. | Sonia Chernova, Elisabeth Crawford, Manuela M. Veloso |
| 2004 | ICRA | Learning and using Models of Kicking Motions for Legged Robots. | Sonia Chernova, Manuela M. Veloso |
| 2004 | IROS | An evolutionary approach to gait learning for four-legged robots. | Sonia Chernova, Manuela M. Veloso |