I am a doctoral researcher at SFB TRR318 “Constructing Explainability”, a Collaborative Research Center at Paderborn and Bielefeld University. I am supervised by Prof. Dr. Katharina J. Rohlfing, with Prof. Dr.-Ing. Britta Wrede as co-PI in Project A05. My work lies at the interdisciplinary intersection of Cognitive Science and Psycholinguistics. This includes statistical modeling and (computational) cognitive science. Before joining SFB TRR318, I completed an M.Sc. in Cognitive Science and a Bachelor’s in Germanistik from JNU.

I investigate multimodal processes in both humans and artificial agents to better understand the desiderata of successful explanations. In particular, I am keen to bring established methods from psycholingustics and cognitive science, such as online language processing, language-vision interaction and visual world paradigms, into HRI and explanability research.

Methodologically, I study human–human explanation using eyetracking and psycholinguistic experimentation.

For human–AI teaming, I work with foundation models, Human-Robot Interaction, and statistical modeling (mostly Bayesian).

Updates

🎉 Paper accepted at IEEE ICDL 2026

Our paper A Divergence Model of Scaffolding in Dialogue via Negation has been accepted at the IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL 2026). The study explores how divergence between dialogue partners’ representations of context relates to the use of negation. Publication list

🎉 Paper accepted at Acta Psychologica

A recent paper analyzing eye-tracking data (preferential-looking paradigm) has been accepted for publication in Acta Psychologica. The study shows how individual differences in infants’ preference for the salient object shape word learning. Link

The open-access book on Social Explainable AI (sXAI) is now out.Read

I contributed a chapter on Explanation Goals.Link

TeaP 2026, Tübingen

I recently presented my work at TeaP 2026 in Tübingen. Read the abstract

IEEE ICDL 2025, Prague

At IEEE ICDL 2025 in Prague, I gave a talk on language-vision interaction in dialogical human-robot interaction. Watch the talk on YouTube

WinGaze

WinGaze: A tool for exploring multimodal interaction in HRI. View on GitHub