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Curriculum Vitae
M.S. Computer Science, University of Michigan Flint · PLAYLab. End user authoring for human multi robot interaction.
Education
Aug 2025 – May 2027
M.S. in Computer Science
University of Michigan Flint · expected May 2027
GPA 4.0 / 4.0. Thesis: end user authoring for human multi robot collaboration.
2020 – 2023
B.Sc. (Hons) Computer Networking & IT Security
London Metropolitan University, London, UK
Final year project: a working three axis CNC wood carving machine built from scratch.
Research experience
Aug 2025 – present
Graduate Student Research Assistant
PLAYLab, University of Michigan Flint
Design and build end user authoring tools for multi robot teams and run the studies that evaluate
them, including the hardware: the robot fleets, their localization, and the control software.
Jan 2026 – present
Graduate Student Research Assistant (part time)
School of Nursing, University of Michigan Flint · PI: Dr. Beverly Dabney
Designed and built an AI assisted production pipeline for short form educational video. Manuscript in preparation.
May – Jul 2026
Research Mentor, NSF REU Site in Digital Accessibility
University of Michigan Flint
Mentored an undergraduate researcher on AR authoring that lets autistic users program robot and IoT behaviors, and guided co design sessions with autistic participants.
Publications & manuscripts
Under review
Title withheld during review
Gaurab Khadka and advisor
Full paper submitted to a peer reviewed venue.
Under review
In preparation
Social Web-Inspired Video to Support Student Attainment of AACN Essentials
Beverly Dabney and Gaurab Khadka
School of Nursing, University of Michigan Flint.
Manuscript in preparation
Systems
2025 – present
Thesis system · built end to end: robots, localization, control server, both authoring interfaces, planning layer
Evaluated in a counterbalanced within subjects study.
2025
Three robot fleet with seven motion primitives · user study, N = 11
Showed motion alone carries robot state, and exposed the reuse limitation that set up the thesis.
2025 – 2026
AR story authoring for physical robots · deployed at the Super Friday workshop
Students authored and ran their own AR stories with no programming.
2026 – present
AI assisted production pipeline · School of Nursing
Includes the “Evidence Elevator” device for teaching the hierarchy of evidence.
Skills
Research
HRI user studies · within subjects design · think aloud · SUS · NASA-TLX · semi structured interviews · qualitative coding · statistical analysis
Robotics
ESP32 / NodeMCU fleets · HTC Vive Tracker (SteamVR) · ArUco localization · motion primitive design · multi robot control
AI
LLM pipelines (Claude, Gemini) · structured output validation
AR
Unity AR Foundation · ARCore · browser based AR interfaces
Programming
Python · JavaScript / React · C# · C++ (Arduino) · Java · Git
Service & other
2026
Student Volunteer, ACM RecSys 2026
Minneapolis, MN
Earlier
Industry
UX Analyst Intern, BizGees Ltd. (2025) · QA & IT Support, Danfe Solution (2022 – 2024)
Engineering and security work is on the technical background page.