Hi there! I’m a fifth-year PhD student in Maja Matarić’s Interaction Lab at the University of Southern California. My research is supported by a USC Annenberg Fellowship and WiSE Qualcomm Top-Off Fellowship. I am fortunate to collaborate closely with the Levitt Lab and Infant Neuromotor Control Lab at the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.

My research goal is to develop models of dyadic communication dynamics, and how they evolve over multiple interactions. Previously, I have been an intern at Microsoft, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Tesla, and an undergraduate RA in Guy Hoffman’s Human-Robot Collaboration & Companionship Lab at Cornell University. Outside of work, I spend as much time as I can drawing and painting.

Publications

Chang, A., Klein, L., Rosales, M., Deng, W., Smith, B.A., & Matarić, M.J. (2022). Evaluating Temporal Patterns in Applied Infant Affect Recognition. 10th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII).

Klein, L., Ardulov, V., Gharib, A., Thompson, B., Levitt, P., & Matarić, M.J. (2021). Dynamic Mode Decomposition with Control as a Model of Multimodal Behavioral Coordination. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI). ACM.

Deng, W., Sargent, B., Bradley, N.S., Klein L., Rosales, M., Pulido, J.C., Matarić, M.J., & Smith, B.A. Using Socially Assistive Robot Feedback to Reinforce Infant Leg Movement Acceleration. To appear in IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2021), Aug-2021

Klein, L., Ardulov, V., Hu, Y. Soleymani, M. Gharib, A. Thompson, B. Levitt, P., & Matarić, M.J. (2020). Incorporating Measures of Intermodal Coordination in Automated Analysis of Infant-Mother Interaction. In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI). ACM.

Klein, L., Itti, L., Smith, B. A., Rosales, M., Nikolaidas, S., & Matarić, M. J. (2019). Surprise! Predicting Infant Visual Attention in a Socially Assistive Robot Contingent Learning Paradigm. 2019 International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN). IEEE.

Nathans-Kelly, T., Evans, R., Klein, L., & Zhang, J. (2017). We WOVE, We Designed, We Conquered: Assessing Engineering Self-Efficacy in a Mechanical Engineering Communication Initiative—Instructor and Student Perspectives. 2017 International Professional Communication Conference. IEEE.