Jivko Sinapov
Assistant Professor at Tufts University
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolJivko Sinapov is an assistant professor and robotics/AI researcher with 11 years of experience bridging human-computer interaction and embodied agents. He earned a PhD in Computer Science and HCI from Iowa State and has held roles from research internships at Willow Garage and HRL Laboratories to a postdoc with UT Austin’s Learning Agents Research Group before joining Tufts University. His work focuses on taking robots out of the lab and into real-world environments, combining rigorous HCI methodology with practical robotic systems. Based in Somerville, MA, he blends academic leadership and hands-on experimentation, mentoring students while advancing deployable learning agents. An underappreciated strength is his continuity across the full research pipeline—from early internship prototypes to sustained academic programs—illustrating a rare mix of engineering grit and human-centered design.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science and Human-Computer Interaction, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science and Human-Computer Interaction at Iowa State UniversityBSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at University of Rochester
English, Bulgarian
Github Skills (4)
controlling10
robotics8
ros8
arm5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
shiqizhang6/perception_pomdp
Sep 2016 - Dec 2019
Contributions:25 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
jsinapov/agile_grasp
Jul 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:8 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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