Nov. 2023 Featured in ASU News.
Oct. 2023 Paper accepted to ICSR 2023
Sep. 2023 Our work on video accessibility was featured on ABC 15.
Sep. 2023 NIH R01 grant (~$3.2M) on automated video description for blind and low vision users. The project is a collaboration with the University of Rochester, University of California, Santa Cruz, Columbia University, and Vista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired.
June 2023 ASU CHART grant ($10,012) for our work on superhuman performance in autonomous robot teaming applications (SPARTA)
Dec. 2022 Paper accepted to the ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI)
Aug. 2022 NSF grant ($94,997, Grand Total: $599,974) to develop an edge-based approach to robust multi-robot systems in dynamic environments
Apr. 2022 ASEE CyBR-MSI grant ($10,000)
Feb. 2022 Our work on democratizing AI was featured on Google TensorFlow's blog.
Nov. 2021 Grant award ($6,500) from Google TensorFlow for our work on learning responsible AI for social impact
Oct. 2021 RSCA grant ($17,885) for our project on safe and resilient autonomous navigation for service robots
Aug. 2021 exploreCSR award ($32,000) from Google Research for our work on democratizing AI and promoting AI fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics: https://democratizeai.org/
May-June 2021 I am a Faculty in Residence at Google in Mountain View, CA.
Jan. 2021 Grant award ($20,000) from Amazon for our project on humam-aware robot navigation in indoor environments
Oct.-Dec. 2020 I am a visiting faculty in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen.
Nov. 2020 Grant award ($99,948) from the Ability Central Foundation for our AI for Social Good project on video accessibility for blind and low vision individuals
Aug. 2020 NSF grant ($999,987) to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in the AI workforce and encourage more students from underrepresented groups to pursue research and careers in AI
Aug. 2020 NSF grant ($749,304) to develop safe and secure autonomous robots
Dec. 2019 Grant award ($102,500) from the Ability Central Foundation for our AI for Social Good project on video accessibility for blind and low vision individuals
Apr. 2019 Speaker and panelist in the Deep Humanities and Arts Symposium in San Jose, CA
Feb. 2019 Grant award ($6,000) from the Center for Computing in Life Sciences for our project on learning to navigate like humans
Dec. 2018 Our paper titled "Online Learning of Human Navigational Intentions" was a finalist for the Best Paper Award at ICSR 2018.
Dec. 2018 Our paper titled "Predicting the Target in Human-Robot Manipulation Tasks" was a finalist for the Best Interactive Paper Award at ICSR 2018.
Biography Pooyan Fazli is an assistant professor and the director of the People and Robots Laboratory (PeRL) in the School of Arts, Media, and Engineering (AME) and the Media and Immersive eXperience (MIX) Center at Arizona State University. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of British Columbia. Previously, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the CORAL Research Group at Carnegie Mellon University and in the Laboratory for Computational Intelligence at the University of British Columbia.
Center Affiliations I am affiliated with the Center for Human, Artificial Intelligence, and Robot Teaming (CHART).
Graduate Faculty Privileges Computer Science, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, and Media Arts and Sciences.
Research Interests Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Robots, Multi-Robot Systems, Human-Robot Teaming, Robot Learning, Vision and Language.
Prospective Postdocs, Students, Visitors, and Interns I am currently looking for highly motivated postdocs, students, visitors, and interns to join my lab. If you are interested in a position in my lab, please fill out this form.
Sponsors My work is generously supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institute of Health (NIH), Google, Amazon, Ability Central Foundation, and ASU.