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Justin Hart

Assistant Professor of Practice

Justin W. Hart is an Assistant Professor of Practice in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin, where he leads the Living with Robots Laboratory. His laboratory pursues the science and technology to put a robot in every home and workplace; making robots which interact well with people and robots which work in places designed for people. To this end, his work spans social and autonomous human-robot interaction and the technologies to support wide-spread service robots, such as semantic mapping and the use of large language models and other foundation models in robotics. Hart co-directs the Living and Working with Robots project under UT Good Systems, and collaborates on the Building-Wide Intelligence Project and the RoboCup@Home team. He received his Ph.D., M.Phil., and M.S. in Computer Science from Yale University, an M.Eng. from Cornell University, and a B.S. from West Virginia University.

Research

Research Areas:
Research Interests:
  • Development of comprehensive systems
    • Enabling technologies for general purpose service robots

Research Labs & Affiliations:

Learning Agents Research Group

 

Select Publications

J. W. Hart, and B. Scassellati. 2017. Robot Self-Modeling. International Journal of Humanoid Robotics.

J. Thomason, A. Padmakumar, J. Sinapov, J. W. Hart P, and R. Mooney.. November 2017. Opportunistic Active Learning for Grounding Natural Language Descriptions. Proceedings of the 1st Annual Confer- ence on Robot Learning. Mountain View, CA.

J. W. Hart and B. Scassellati. July 2012. Mirror Perspective-Taking with a Humanoid Robot. Proceedings of the 26th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Toronto, Ontario, Canada .

R. Fernandez, N. John, S. Kirmani, J. Hart, J. Sinapov, and P. Stone. August 2019. Passive Demonstrations of Light-Based Robot Signals for Improved Human Interpretability. Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication. Nanjing, China .

J. W. Hart and B. Scassellati. October 2011. A Robotic Model of the Ecological Self. Proceedings of the 11th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots . Bled, Slovenia.

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Awards & Honors

  • 2013 - Society of Manufacturing Engineers Innovation Watch List

Contact Info

Justin Hart
Assistant Professor of Practice
Homepage
(512) 998-1757
hart@cs.utexas.edu
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