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Jul 27, 2026 ACME: Our Multi-cultural Multi-embodiment Social Navigation and Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction Dataset work is released on arxiv. ACME is currently the largest (by duration) expert-driven multi-embodiment multi-modal dataset for social navigation! We are working on releasing the data on HuggingFace soon. Stay tuned!
Jul 09, 2026 I presented my thesis proposal, A framework for learning and evaluating Social Robot Navigation! [Slides]
Jun 28, 2026 Submitted ACME: A Multi-Cultural Multi-Embodiment Social Navigation Dataset to IJRR! Check out the project website and Paper.
Jan 28, 2026 I gave a talk on “Datasets for Social Navigation” at the Embodied AI Workshop, National Robotics Programme.
LinkedIn post: Datasets for Social Navigation talk at the Embodied AI Workshop
Jul 09, 2025 I gave a talk on “Curating Social Navigation Datasets for Training Navigation Models” at the NSCC-NRP Workshop on Advancing Embodied AI Research through Data.
LinkedIn post: Curating Social Navigation Datasets talk at the NSCC-NRP Workshop
Dec 31, 2024 SocRATES: Our novel LLM-powered social-scenario generation tool is released on arxiv with accompanying code!
Jul 20, 2024 SocRATES won the Runner-up Best Paper Award at the Unsolved Problems in Social Navigation Workshop at RSS 2024 in the Netherlands!
LinkedIn post: SocRATES wins Best-Paper Runner-Up at RSS 2024