Team

We are looking for PhD students, Master’s students, and undergraduates to join the lab (see how to join) !

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Faculty

Michelle Zhao

Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering
zhaomich [at] iu.edu
Personal website · Google Scholar

PhD Students

Mihir Parekh

Incoming PhD student, Department of Computer Science, Fall 2026
mihparek [at] iu.edu

I am an incoming Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at Indiana University Bloomington. I received my B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts Lowell, where I was a member of the Assistive Robotics & Accessibility Lab and the Emergent Dynamics, Controls, & Analytics Lab. My current research interests include causal confusion, mechanistic interpretability, and human-robot representation alignment.

Jiahe Liu

Incoming PhD student, Department of Computer Science, Fall 2026
jl456 [at] iu.edu

I am an incoming Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Indiana University Bloomington, joining the lab in Fall 2026.

Master and Undergraduate Students

Openings for Master’s and undergraduate researchers are described on the join page.