About Me

I am a PhD student in Control and Dynamical Systems at Caltech, where I am fortunate to be advised by Professors Yisong Yue and Joel W. Burdick. My research focuses on learning from human feedback, with applications to human-robot interaction and personalized medical therapy. I aim to develop theoretically-motivated, principled algorithms for learning from sequential human feedback. In addition, my interests include creating intelligent assistive devices, reinforcement learning, sequential decision-making, and applications of machine learning to healthcare. Outside of research, my other goals include positively impacting people’s lives through teaching and outreach.

Publications

Conference Publications:

Human Preference-Based Learning for High-Dimensional Optimization of Exoskeleton Walking Gaits
Maegan Tucker, Myra Cheng, Ellen Novoseller, Richard Cheng, Yisong Yue, Joel W. Burdick, and Aaron D. Ames
IEEE Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2020
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Dueling Posterior Sampling for Preference-Based Reinforcement Learning
Ellen Novoseller, Yibing Wei, Yanan Sui, Yisong Yue, and Joel W. Burdick
Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), 2020
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Preference-Based Learning for Exoskeleton Gait Optimization
Maegan Tucker*, Ellen Novoseller*, Claudia Kann, Yanan Sui, Yisong Yue, Joel W. Burdick, and Aaron D. Ames
IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2020
(*equal contribution)
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Received Best Conference Paper Award and Best Paper in Human-Robot Interaction Award.

Modeling Motor Responses of Paraplegics under Epidural Spinal Cord Stimulation
Ellen Feldman and Joel W. Burdick
IEEE Conference on Neural Engineering (NER), 2017
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Towards Robot-Assisted Vitreoretinal Surgery: Force-Sensing Micro-Forceps Integrated with a Handheld Micromanipulator
Berk Gonenc, Ellen Feldman, Peter Gehlbach, James Handa, Russell H. Taylor, and Iulian Iordachita
IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2014
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Workshop Publications:

Dueling Posterior Sampling for Preference-Based Reinforcement Learning
Ellen Novoseller, Yanan Sui, Yisong Yue, and Joel W. Burdick
Workshop on Real-world Sequential Decision Making: Reinforcement Learning and Beyond, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2019
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