Research interests

Recent publications

The ten most recent from their Google Scholar profile, newest first.

1. Dynamic hierarchical task trees: A representation for tasks with changing requirements

   TJ Becker, W Peterson, D Feil-Seifer, M Nicolescu. Proc. of the 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and … , 2026. 2026

   2 citations

2. Real-Time Face Customization for Therapeutic Robots: Addressing the Temporal Barrier to Clinical Deployment

   D Oliva, D Feil-Seifer. Vizij: HRI 2026 Workshop+ Tutorial on Expressive Robot Faces , 2026. 2026

3. Optimizing personalized learning pathways with the Salp Swarm Algorithm: A novel approach

   H Jamali, SM Dascalu, FC Harris, D Feil-Seifer. 2025 6th International conference on artificial intelligence, robotics and … , 2025. 2025

   19 citations

4. FORE: A student-centered framework for accessible robotics education through simulation and interactive learning

   H Jamali, AL DeBolt, H Dalton, JK Layosa, IR Macy, PC Shill, D Feil-Seifer, .... 2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , 2025. 2025

   14 citations

5. Through the clutter: Exploring the impact of complex environments on the legibility of robot motion

   M Schmidt-Wolf, TJ Becker, D Oliva, M Nicolescu, D Feil-Seifer. 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 13553 … , 2025. 2025

   7 citations

6. Simulation theory of mind for heterogeneous human-robot teams

   M Nicolescu, J Blankenburg, BA Anima, M Zagainova, P Hoseini, .... Frontiers in Robotics and AI 12, 1533054 , 2025. 2025

   4 citations

7. Designing socially assistive robots for clinical practice: insights from an asynchronous remote community of speech-language pathologists

   D Oliva, A Olszewski, S Sadeghi, K Dantu, D Feil-Seifer. Frontiers in Robotics and AI 12, 1646880 , 2025. 2025

   4 citations

8. Design Activity for Robot Faces: Evaluating Child Responses To Expressive Faces

   D Oliva, J Knight, T Becker, H Aministani, M Nicolescu, D Feil-Seifer. 2025 34th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive … , 2025. 2025

   4 citations

9. SAR4SLPs: An Asynchronous Survey of Speech-Language Pathologists' Perspectives on Socially Assistive Robots

   D Oliva, A Olszewski, D Feil-Seifer. arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.16055 , 2025. 2025

10. Board 413: Undergraduate robotics education with general instructors using a student-centered personalized learning framework

    R Wu, S Dascalu, Z Zhu, D Feil-Seifer, MC Ringler, BC Hutchins, L Rosof, .... 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , 2024. 2024

    10 citations

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