Aaquib Tabrez
Graduate Research Assistant at University of Colorado Boulder
PhD student in Computer Science | Explainable AI | Human-Robot Interaction | Reinforcement Learning
Aaquib Tabrez is a PhD student in the Computer Science department at Collaborative AI and Robotics Lab (CAIRO) under Dr.Bradley Hayes. As a PhD student, Aaquib is designing models and algorithms for Coaching humans to be better at tasks using Explainable AI via Reinforcement Learning.  

Aaquib was named a 2019 HRI Pioneer, and elected a Program Chair for HRI Pioneers 2020. When he's not manipulating people using robots on campus, you can find him swing dancing, hiking, or writing haiku/poems about existentialism.
University of Colorado Boulder
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Computer Science PhD student with an emphasis on robotics and AI. Working under Professor Bradley Hayes, who heads the Collaborative Artificial Intelligence and Robotics laboratory. My research is at the intersection of Explainable AI and Human-Robot Interaction to constraint/manipulate the behaviour of collaborative human using natural language.
Boulder, USA
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Graduate Research Assistant
University of Colorado Boulder
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Grader/Course Assistant for Algorithmic Human-Robot Interaction
Boulder
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Grader
University of Colorado Boulder
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MCEN 4026- Manufacturing processes and systems
Boulder
Grader
Daimler India Commercial Vehicle
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• Worked with Bus and Frame team for sourcing and vendor management
• formulated Strategy, cost analysis, and project management for new projects
• Joint Sourced suppliers with Japanese counterpart for entire Asia region
• Responsible for tracking the annual savings achieved in line with top down target for all After Sales parts.
Chennai Area, India
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Procurement Manager
Kudremukh Iron Ore Company
Project Title "Working of a pelletisation plant and methods to improve efficiency of yield"
• Worked with project team to optimize the yield of pelletisation plant
• Reduce takt time and increased the yield by using lean management methods
Mangalore
Industrial Engineering Intern
Bharat heavy Electrical Ltd Jhansi
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Project Title "Locomotive coaches in Indian railway"
• Worked with benchmarking team of Indian locomotive coaches
• Surveyed the variety of coaches in different application with technical feasibility
Jhansi Area, India
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Internship
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
Computer Science
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University of Colorado Boulder
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Masters degree
Masters in Mechanical Engineering with Specialization in Robotics and Control
Mechanical Engineering
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University of Colorado Boulder
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Bachelor's Degree
-Mechanical and Media Convernor- Computer society India
-Gaming coordinator - NITK Cultural Symposium
-Haptic Robotic Arm for Technophilia Systems
-Mechanical and Media coordinator- Robotics Club NITK
-Executive Member - Kannada Vedike (Cultural and traditional awareness to Kannada)
-Mechanical Committee Executive Member- NITK Annual Technical Symposium
-Shiksha Co-ordinator NITK- Teaching High school students during the weekend
Mechanical Engineering
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National Institute of Technology Karnataka
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•	Co-ordinate all the Mechanical events and project related activities along with publicity and marketing for the club.
•	As a part of “SHIKSHA” (NGO initiative) was responsible for teaching primary and high school children.
•	Organizing the beach cleanup drive to create awareness & responsible for official posters and videos for the club.
Computer society India( NITK Chapter)
Mechanical Convernor
•	Organized and coordinated the annual cultural fest of NITK which span over 5 days and saw participation of over 10,000 candidates from 150 colleges across India.
•	Responsible for all the Gaming related activities during the fest.
•	Coordinator for Marketing and Publicity Core Teams for the festival.
•	Secured the official gaming sponsor.
Core Team Member- Incident
Gaming Convenor
•	Organizing concerts and lectures by maestros of Indian Kannada classical art forms and to raise awareness of kannada culture.
Kannada Vedike, NITK
Executive Member
•	Conceptualized the COCOBoT, An autonomous robot to harvest coconut trees, this was sponsored by local industry due to decline in workforce.
•	Conducted special lectures on varied topics related to Mechatronics and Robotics.
Robotics Club, NITK StudentChapter
Mechanical Convener
•	Organized and coordinated the annual Technical fest of NITK which span over 5 days and saw participation of over 6000 candidates from 80 colleges across India
•	Co-ordinated all the Mechanical Events during the fest.
Technical Festival, “ENGINEER” NITK
Core Team Member
For robots to effectively collaborate with humans, it is critical to establish a shared mental model amongst teammates. In the case of incongruous models, catastrophic failures may occur unless mitigating steps are taken. To identify and remedy these potential issues, we propose a novel mechanism for enabling an autonomous system to detect model disparity between itself and a human collaborator, infer the source of the disagreement within the model, evaluate potential consequences of this error, and finally, provide human-interpretable feedback to encourage model correction. This process effectively enables a robot to provide a human with a policy update based on perceived model disparity, reducing the likelihood of costly or dangerous failures during joint task execution. This paper makes two contributions at the intersection of explainable AI (xAI) and human-robot collaboration: 1) The Reward Augmentation and Repair through Explanation (RARE) framework for estimating task understanding and 2) A human subjects study illustrating the effectiveness of reward augmentation-based policy repair in a complex collaborative task.
Explanation-based Reward Coaching to Improve Human Performance via Reinforcement Learning
Proceedings of the 2019 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI 2019). Daegu, South Korea (Runner-up, Best Technical Paper Award)
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8673104/
Gathering the most informative data from humans without overloading them remains an active research area in AI, and is closely coupled with the problems of determining how and when information should be communicated to others [12]. Current decision support systems (DSS) are still overly simple and static, and cannot adapt to changing environments we expect to deploy in modern systems [3], [4], [9], [11]. They are intrinsically limited in their ability to explain rationale versus merely listing their future behaviors, limiting a human's understanding of the system [2], [7]. Most probabilistic assessments of a task are conveyed after the task/skill is attempted rather than before [10], [14], [16]. This limits failure recovery and danger avoidance mechanisms. Existing work on predicting failures relies on sensors to accurately detect explicitly annotated and learned failure modes [13]. As such, important non-obvious pieces of information for assessing appropriate trust and/or course-of-action (COA) evaluation in collaborative scenarios can go overlooked, while irrelevant information may instead be provided that increases clutter and mental workload. Understanding how AI models arrive at specific decisions is a key principle of trust [8]. Therefore, it is critically important to develop new strategies for anticipating, communicating, and explaining justifications and rationale for AI driven behaviors via contextually appropriate semantics.
Improving Human-Robot Interaction through Explainable Reinforcement Learning
Proceedings of the HRI Pioneers Workshop at the 2019 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI 2019). Daegu, South Korea.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8673198/
"Explanation-based Reward Coaching to Improve Human Performance via Reinforcement Learning" was one of two papers nominated for Best Technical Paper at HRI 2019.
Proceedings of the 2019 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI 2019). Daegu, South Korea
Runner-up, Best Technical Paper Award
Advanced Finite Element Method
ME417
Energy Engineering
ME300
Engineering Economics
HU300
Heat Transfer
ME350
Hydraulic & Pneumatics Control
ME313
Mechanical Dynamics & Vibrations
ME351
Mechanical Vibration & Accoustics
ME423
Mechatronic System Design
ME316
Micro-Systems & Technbology
ME436
Robotics
MF703
Feedback control
MCEN 5228
Linear Control Systems
ASEN 5014
Methods for Engineering analysis
MCEN 5020
Objective: To prove the advantage of 3D Loop arch wire over the conventional 2D loop wire.
• Completed an exhaustive survey on variety of 2D Loops Arch wire used in Braces.
• Completed a study on the Regional Load Deflection Rate of Multi loop Edgewise Arch Wire
• Real time modelof 3D loopwas studied along with 3D Model using FEA in ANSYS. Successfully proved that by using this configuration, a force ratio of 10:1 is maintained irrespective of the force applied and material used.
• Proposed implementation of this Loop in Dental application, as the problems faced in the  conventional loop explicitly as manual calibration of wire and frequent retightening can be eliminated.
Undergraduate Project: 3D Loop Dental Arch Wire
Objective: To model the drug delivery device feasible to use during emergencies.
• Thorough study was conducted on surface acoustic wave devices.
• Device was modeled and FEA analysis was conducted along with theoretical formulation.
• This was presented as a seminar in NITK technical forum and was appreciated for the portable and feasible application in Drug delivery.
Drug Delivery using SAW devices
Objective: To understand the behavior of dynamic vibration absorber & to understand its practical applicability.
•	This Mini-project was part of a course on Machine dynamics and vibration.
•	Simulation was done for vibration absorber using Matlab library.
•	The results of simulation were studied for different scenario and conclusion was made to understand the practical applicability of the principle such as Phonograph pickup
Simulation of dynamic vibration absorber
An image processing program was written interfaced with a freeduino to control a process dc motor. The control was based on the facial recognition of the user; i.e. access to the working is given only to authorized users. The image processing done in Matlab was based on the P.C.A. (Principle Component Analysis) method of facial recognition using the Eigen values of the RGB wavelengths. This project was done as a part of a mini-project in the course Mechatronic Systems and Design under the guidance of Dr. Navin Karanth P, Department of Mechanical Engineering, NITK Surathkal
Image Based Actuator Control
Objective: To build Haptic arm controlled by hand glove
• Successfully made 5 Degree of freedom Haptic Robotic arm using Optical Servo & Atmega8.
• Exhaustive study on variety of Microcontrollers, Actuators, sensors and motor driver was conducted.
• Practical application of Analog to digital conversion was exercised during programming.
5 DOF Haptic Robotic Arm workshop
Education
National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal
Involved in imparting computer education to less privileged children residing in nearby communities
Volunteer, Shiksha
Lynda.com
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Artificial Intelligence Foundations: Machine Learning
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Lynda.com
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Learning Git and GitHub
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Coursera Course Certificates
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Learning How to Learn: Powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects
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Coursera Course Certificates
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Programming for Everybody (Getting Started with Python)
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Boulder, CO
Mykala Keuter
Project Manager at University of Colorado Boulder
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Boulder, CO
Surendra Villuri
Student at University of Colorado Boulder
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Boulder, CO
Takshan Shetty
Wireless Systems Graduate Student
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Boulder, CO
Kamini Budke
Graduate Student at University of Colorado Boulder || Embedded Systems Enthusiast
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Cincinnati, OH
Andy Wang
Assistant Director of Player Personnel at University of Colorado Boulder
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Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex
Anna Goff
University of Colorado Boulder
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Boulder, CO
Sahithi Kandala
PhD, Electrical Engineering
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Denver Metropolitan Area
Kenny Nelson
Assistant Vice Chancellor, Human Resources at University of Colorado Boulder
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Boulder, CO
Srijan Bhattacharyya
Graduate Student | Theoretical Chemical Physics | CUbit Quantum Initiative  | Cu Boulder | IIT Kanpur
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Boulder, CO
Khyati Satta
Incoming Firmware Engineer Intern @Meta | Graduate Student at CU Boulder - Embedded Systems Engineering
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Chennai
Sweta S
Program Management at Citi
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Mumbai
Monika Sahu, PMP®
Manager IT | SME for CRM, DMS, Mobile Apps| Automobile| Retail Applications| Focus on Emerging Technologies
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Madison, WI
Aqueel Nazim Altaf
Supply Chain Optimization |
Data Analytics | Simulation Modeling |
Continuous Imp. | Six Sigma Practitioner
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Boulder, CO
Justin H.
LST AV Integration Specialist at University of Colorado Boulder
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United States
Sriniketh Vijayaraghavan
Doctoral Candidate at UW Madison
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Boulder, CO
Sydney Tucker
Peer Mentor/ TA at University of Colorado Boulder College of Engineering & Applied Science
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Boulder, CO
Chelsea Magyar
Professional Dancer
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Ernakulam
Vishak Nair
Chief Operating Officer and Director at MadGenius Productions
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Greater Houston
Zaid Tasneem
Research Intern at NEC Laboratories America, Inc. | Rice University
Human Robot Interaction (HRI)
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User Experience Group
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Commercial Vehicle Fleet Management
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Hybrid Electric Vehicle for Commercial and Fleet Vehicles
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Explainable AI - XAI
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