He received his PhD from Georgia Institute of Technology’s College of Computing. His research and teaching interests focus on the development of techniques which allow robots to interact with a wide variety of people in various different social contexts. He is currently investigating human-robot trust and the conditions which encourage or discourage people from trusting robots as well the possibility of developing robots which will evaluate whether or not they can trust people. Application areas for these interests range from military to healthcare with particular emphasis on search and rescue and humanitarian applications.