Sarah Strohkorb Sebo
Graduate Student
Sarah Strohkorb Sebo received her PhD in Computer Science from Yale University in 2020. She is now an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago. Sebo's current research explores how robots and artificial agents can positively shape human-to-human interactions.
In her PhD work with the Human Nature Lab, Sarah focused on developing robots that improved the performance of human-robot teams by shaping team dynamics to promote inclusion, trust, and cohesion. Human social behavior in groups is richly interconnected and highly nuanced, presenting computational challenges for sensing group-level dynamics from individual behavior. Sebo built robots that not only perceived these dynamics, but also positively influenced the behavior of group members through social cues and verbal interaction.