Leena Mathur
Graduate Researcher
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolLeena Mathur is a PhD student in Carnegie Mellon’s Language Technologies Institute researching foundations of multimodal, social, and embodied intelligence to enable AI systems that interact robustly with people in real-world social contexts. Her work, supported by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, spans perception, human-robot interaction, and social cognition and is advised by Louis-Philippe Morency and Yonatan Bisk. She brings nine years of research experience across academia and industry, including internships and collaborations at Robust.AI, Google DeepMind, USC, Caltech, and EPFL. Leena pairs technical breadth—computer science, cognitive science, and linguistics—with hands-on robotics and HRI practice, having helped build collaborative mobile robots and led large undergraduate AI programs. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, she applies interdisciplinary methods to health- and well-being–focused AI applications. A less obvious strength is her long record of student leadership and community building (founding and scaling USC’s CAIS++), which gives her a proven ability to translate research into educational impact and team-driven projects.
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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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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