The following paragraph is taken from Chris Birmingham’s personal website.

I am a PhD student in Maja Mataric’s Interaction Lab at the University of Southern California. I am driven by the question - how can we use technology to bring people together rather than isolate them? I believe social robots may bring people out of the digital world and back together in the physical world. I currently focus on understanding the dynamics of multi-party interaction between groups of people and a robot. You can read more about this work here.

As part of this work I spend most of my time developing deep learning models for understanding and predicting human behavior in order to support more intelligent interactions.