DEANNA FLYNN

Artificial Intelligence Graduate Student

MY BIO

I am an Artificial Intelligence Ph.D. student at Oregon State University. My area of research is cognitive robotics, and I currently am a member of the Research and Applied Decisions (RAD) lab at Oregon State University.

Born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska, my favorite activities are bowling, hanging out with friends and family, and watching my favorite shows and movies.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

What I’ve Done

September 2021 - Present

Oregon State University, AgAID Institute

Robotic and HCI Applications in Agriculture

In collaboration with the AgAID institute, I am conducting formative studies with growers and pruners in the field as well as performing data analysis to identify pruning rules and stakeholder perspectives for robots entering the pruning workforce.

September 2022 - Present

Oregon State University, LASSIE

Explanations for Human-Robot Teaming in Planetary Geological Sciences

In collaboration with NASA, I am exploring adding explanations to a human-robot teaming sampling scenario with planetary and geological sciences.

March 2022-August 2022

Oregon State University

WaiterBot: Human vs. Robot Initiative

Examined how human vs. robot initiative impacts food taking, obligation to take food, and perceived robot attributes in a social feeding, cocktail environment setting with a WaiterBot.

June 2019 - October 2019

NASA Ames Research Center

Search Tree Pruning for Progressive Neural Architecture Search

Looked at the creation and pruning of a search tree comprised of nodes representing neural networks to satisfy classification problems.

January 2019 - May 2019

University of Alaska Anchorage

Rigorous Polynomial Approximation

Applying Remez’ Algorithm towards rigorous Machine Learning to control the percent error calculated from floating-point arithmetic.

EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

Learning and Living

September 2021 - Present

Ph.D. Artificial Intelligence, Minor in Robotics

Oregon State University

I am attending school for a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence, with a research focus on cognitive robotics and human-robot interaction (HRI). I am currently advised by Cristina Wilson (RAD Lab) and Cindy Grimm.

August 2016 - May 2020

B.S. Computer Science, Minor in Mathematics

University of Alaska Anchorage

I graduated in 2020 Magna Cum Laude (3.90) with a Bachelor's of Science in Computer Science and a minor in Mathematics from the University of Alaska Anchorage. Specifically I tailored my bachelor's degree towards cognitive science.