Leena Mathur
Graduate Researcher
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolLeena Mathur is a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science and a Student Researcher at Google DeepMind, advancing foundations of multimodal, social, and embodied AI for real-world human interaction. She is advised by Yonatan Bisk and Louis-Philippe Morency, with support from the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and the SoftBank Group-Arm Fellowship. Her training blends computer science, cognitive science, and linguistics, earning an MS at CMU and BS/BA degrees from USC in CS, Cognitive Science, and Linguistics, with research experiences at USC, Caltech, and EPFL during undergrad. Professionally, she has explored perception and human-robot interaction at Robust.AI and held leadership and research roles in USC's CAIS++ group and the USC Interaction Lab. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, she operates at the intersection of academia and industry, bridging robotics, ML, and AI systems that engage with people. Her profile reflects a rare breadth—from robotics to language-enabled AI—and a track record of moving theoretical ideas into practical, human-centered AI applications.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science (Research Honors), B.A. Cognitive Science, B.A. Linguistics, B.S. Computer Science (Research Honors), B.A. Cognitive Science, B.A. Linguistics at University of Southern CaliforniaHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Saint Francis High SchoolDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
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Github contributions (5)
l-mathur/l-mathur.github.io
Jul 2022 - Apr 2025
Contributions:100 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
l-mathur/social-ai
Apr 2024 - Jan 2025
Accompanies the EMNLP 2024 paper: "Advancing Social Intelligence in AI Agents: Technical Challenges and Open Questions". This repo features Social-AI papers across computing communities, courses, and dissertations.
Contributions:1 PR, 35 pushes in 9 months
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