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Biography
Gita Sukthankar’s research aims to give computers higher-level cognitive functions traditionally associated with humans, including planning, decision making and understanding and managing social interactions. Sukthankar’s expertise is AI and machine learning, and overseeing the Intelligent Agents Lab at UCF, she investigates social models within robots, agents and people with an emphasis on studying the behavior of people within games and simulation environments. Her research investigates models of machine learning with human cognition to create proactive assistant agents and robots that can collaborate with humans in socially intelligent ways.
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