Niveditha (Nivii) Kalavakonda

I am a final year Ph.D Candidate at the University of Washington - Seattle, where I am advised by Prof. Blake Hannaford. I am also a part of the Science, Technology, and Society Studies program, advised by Prof. Ryan Calo. Before moving to the University of Washington, I spent a year at the Indian Institute of Technology - Madras, working with Prof. Asokan Thondiyath on a virtual-reality simulator for a surgical robot being developed in the lab.

My current research focuses on developing assistive autonomy using a shared control paradigm for surgical robotics. Broadly, my research interests lie at the intersection of human-robot interaction and computer vision.