Ria Pereira

• Masters Student
• RoboticsEngineering
• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Contact Information

• Lab
• • 85 Prescott Street
  • Room 230 (Beside RBE office)
  • Phone: 508-831-5191
• Mailing Address
• • 85 Prescott Street
  • 2nd Floor, Robotics Engineering
  • Worcester, MA 01605
• E-mail
• rhpereira@wpi.edu

Education

• B.S., Electrical Engineering, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo MI, 2013

Research Interests

• Medical Robots
• Socially Assitive Robotics
• Robotics Education

About Me

I am an international student from India, pursuing my Master's degree in Robotics Engineering at WPI. I graduated with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Western Michigan University and then worked as a Software Engineer at New York Air Brake for two years writing code to stop heavy haul freight trains. My research at the AIM Lab is focused on a humanoid robot, PABI (Penguin for Autism Behavioral Intervention) where I am working on several different dimensions towards making the current system more comprehensive and user friendly. Besides coursework, I am an aspiring teacher. I work part time as a writing tutor on campus and as a science instructor at Technocopia.

Publications

Refereed Conference Proceedings

1. Dickstein-Fischer LA, Pereira R, Gandomi K, Fathima A, Fischer GS, Interactive Tracking for Robot-Assisted Autism Therapy, ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction - HRI 2017, Vienna, Austria, March 2017. ACM