About

I am a Computer Science PhD candidate at Tufts University and a member of the Assistive Agent Behavior and Learning Lab (AABL). I am advised by Dr. Elaine Schaertl Short.

My research is in Human-Robot Interaction and focuses on improving the transparency of robot behavioral models to foster better collaborative human-robot interactions, particularly for individuals with disabilities.

I have an M.S. in Computer Science from Tufts University ('24) and a B.A. in Computer Science and Classics from Mount Holyoke College ('22).

Curriculum Vitae

Projects & Research
Research

Empowering Disabled Engineers through Accessible Co-Curricular Activities

2025
ACM SIGCSE Conference on Research on Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology (RESPECT)

Mavis Murdock, Katherine H. Allen, Elaine Short

Accessibility and Robotics Education

2024
Workshop on Teaching Accessibility in Different Disciplines: Topics, Approaches, Resources, Challenges
ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS)

Mavis Murdock, Elaine Schaertl Short

Online Behavior Modification for Expressive User Control of RL-Trained Robots

2024
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)

Isaac Sheidlower, Mavis Murdock, Emma Bethel, Reuben M Aronson, Elaine Schaertl Short

Emerging Challenges in Cybersecurity

2022

Exploring machine learning techniques for botnet detection.

Projects

Mr. Meter Machine

2024

A tool for introductory Ancient Greek students to practice scanning lines from the Iliad.

Teaching Experience
Tufts University
Data Structures (Instructor) Summer 2024, 2025
Intro to Human-Robot Interaction (TA) Fall 2023, 2025
Robotics Teaching Lab (TA) Spring 2024
Probabilistic Robotics (TA) Spring 2023
Mount Holyoke College
Operating Systems (TA) Spring 2022
Java Programming Language (TA) Spring 2021