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 of Record
Summer 2024, 25, 26
  • ArrayLists, Stacks, Queues, Buffers, Recursion, Make and Makefiles, Tree Traversals, AVL Trees, Priority Queues and Heaps, Hashing and Hash Tables, Graphs, Dijkstra's Algorithm, Sorting Algorithms
Introduction to HRI TA
Fall 2023, 2025
  • Robot perception, planning, and control fundamentals
  • Human factors and interaction design
  • Accessibility and inclusive design in robotics
  • User study design and evaluation methods
Robotics Teaching Lab TA
Spring 2024
  • Maintained lab robots: Turtlebot, Misty, Spheros
  • Maintained robot documentation
  • Helped students learn and use ROS
Probabilistic Robotics TA
Spring 2023
  • Bayesian filtering and state estimation
  • Kalman filters and particle filters
  • Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM)
  • Motion planning under uncertainty
Mount Holyoke College
Operating Systems TA
Spring 2022
  • operating system evolution, memory management, virtual memory, resource scheduling, multiprogramming, deadlocks, concurrent processes, protection, and design principles
Java Programming Language TA
Spring 2021
  • data structures, algorithms, and OOP in Java