Chinmaya Mishra
Postdoctoral Researcher . Social Roboticist
Postdoctoral Researcher . Social Roboticist
[ August 2026 ] : Paper on "Aligned but Not Partner-Specific: Distinguishing How Multimodal LLM Agents Succeed in Reference Games Without Human-Like Conventions" accepted as a Main Conference paper at the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2026), Budapest, Hungary.
[ July 2026 ] : Paper on "GroundingGaze: An Interactive Pipeline for Automatic Gaze Annotation" accepted for publication at the 28th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2026), Napoli, Italy.
[ May 2026 ] : Invited seminar on "Towards Multimodal Communication with Social Robots", Erasmus Mundus Master's Programme, University of Zaragoza, Spain
[ April 2026] : Conducted hands-on HRI workshop for the course “Algorithms, Influence and Chatbots” at Radboud University, Nijmegen.
[ March 2026 ] : Hosted the public experiment "Therapist vs. Robot" at the InScience Film Festival 2026 in Nijmegen, comparing relationship advice from a human expert and an LLM-powered social robot.
[ March 2026 ] : Talk on "Robot Gaze: Why and How to Implement?", at the workshop on Expressive Robot Faces with Vizij in the 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Edinburgh, UK
[ January 2026 ] : LBR Paper on "Are we seeing eye-to-eye?: Gaze allocation to a humanoid robot during conversation" accepted for publication in the 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2026), Edinburgh, UK.
[ January 2026 ] : Talk on "Artificial Interlocutors in Psycholinguistics: Using Robots and Virtual Agents to Probe Multimodal Language Understanding", Yokohama City University, Japan
[ January 2026 ] : Appointed as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)