Yen-Ling Kuo

Yen-Ling Kuo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia and a member of the Link Lab. Her research focuses on robot learning, human-AI/robot interaction, and integrating artificial intelligence with cognitive science to enable robots to generalize reasoning skills for human interaction, including language understanding and common sense reasoning. She holds a PhD from MIT CSAIL, advised by Boris Katz and Andrei Barbu. She teaches courses such as Artificial Intelligence and Learning for Interactive Robots, emphasizing foundational AI concepts, robotics applications, and generative AI.

Research Interests:

• Robot Learning
• Human-AI/Robot Interaction
• Cognitive Science Integration
• Machine Learning for Robotic Systems

Awards:

• NSF CAREER Award (2024)

Advising & Grants: Actively recruiting students for her UVA research group, focusing on interactive robotics and AI collaboration. Her work is supported by grants including the NSF CAREER Award.

Labs: Member of the Link Lab, a leading center for robotics and autonomous systems at UVA.