About
Nick Walker is a Ph.D. candidate and NSF Graduate Research Fellow at the University of Washington in Seattle. He works on human-robot interaction with the Human-Centered Robotics Lab where he is advised by Maya Cakmak. His work spans topics in human-robot communication, including expressive motion and natural language. In 2022, Nick interned with Claudia Pérez D’Arpino at Nvidia’s Seattle Robotics Lab to work on interfaces to help teleoperators. He has published in numerous IEEE and ACM scholarly conferences, and written for IEEE Spectrum and The Urbanist. While a student, Nick led the organization of the first Northwest Robotics Symposium.
Nick earned a Bachelor in Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin where he worked on service robots with the Building Wide Intelligence. He was part of the Austin Villa@Home RoboCup team that placed 3rd in 2017 and won best-poster in 2018. He was recognized as a Dean’s Honored Graduate and selected as the student commencement speaker.
Nick is also a photographer and runner. He directs the annual Drumheller Marathon and Light Rail Relay endurance running events in Seattle as part of Race Condition Running.
Contact
For bug reports or suggestions on projects, please open an issue on the GitHub repository. Otherwise, please use