Hello there, I’m Promise!

I am a Ph.D. student in the Computer Science Department at Cornell University, advised by Prof Angelique Taylor and Prof. Sanjiban Choudhury. My Ph.D. research investigates techniques to enable safe cooperation and ensure alignment between humans and robots during their collaboration in team settings especially in safety-critical environments such as hospitals. I am interested in effective human-robot teaming behaviours by learning from demonstrations of human activities and building simulators.

My past research projects range from using a game-theoretic approach and reinforcement learning algorithm to study emergent persuasiveness in large language agents (LLA) such as GPT-J, dolly GPT-J, ChatGPT and GPT-3 to Explainable AI (XAI) and AI safety. I completed my Masters in Science of Engineering in the department of Computer Science at Princeton University in United states, 2023 supervised by Prof. Jaime Fernández Fisac. Before that, I received my B.Eng from University of Benin, Nigeria. Before joining Cornell in Summer 2023, I spent eleven weeks as an AI Safety and verification intern doing R&D work at Siemens Technology.

Research areas of interest: Safe human-computer interaction, Robotics, Reinforcement Learning, Large language models.