Jivko Sinapov is an Associate Professor in Computer Science at Tufts University where he leads the Multimodal Learning, Interaction, and Perception (MuLIP) lab (https://mulip.cs.tufts.edu). He received his Ph.D. in computer science and human-computer interaction at Iowa State University in 2013 and subsequently worked as a postdoctoral associate at UT Austin prior to joining Tufts in 2017. His research interests include cognitive and developmental robotics, creative problem solving for AI agents, human-robot interaction, and reinforcement learning. The lab's research has been funded by the NSF, DARPA, ARFL, Amazon Robotics and the Verizon and LEGO foundations. Jivko received the NSF CAREER award in 2023 and is also the recipient of the Tufts ROUTE award for undergraduate research advising in 2022.
Website:mulip.cs.tufts.edu
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