Weijia (Charlie) Zhang

Weijia (Charlie) Zhang

Incoming CS M.S. @ Yale. UIUC CS + Math. NLP / VLM / LLM agent researcher.

Faculty Profile: Prof. Brian Scassellati — Yale CS

Faculty Profile: Prof. Brian Scassellati — Yale CS

Position: A. Bartlett Giamatti Professor (Full Professor) Institution: Yale University, Department of Computer Science; Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Lab: Social Robotics Lab (Scazlab) Report date: 2026-06-12

Research Focus

Socially assistive robotics, autism spectrum disorder intervention robots, embodied computational models of human social behavior, human-robot interaction, AI literacy education.

Academic Profile

  • PhD: MIT AI Lab
  • AAAI Fellow
  • Director, NSF Expedition on Socially Assistive Robotics
  • Published 2025 work: long-term in-home robot interventions for children with ASD, AI literacy at AAAI’25

Fit with Weijia Zhang

DimensionAssessment
LLM agents / agentic AI❌ No
Post-training (SFT / RL)❌ No
NLP / language models❌ Peripherally (AI tools for social robots)
VLM / GUI agents❌ Physical robots only
Research methods overlap❌ None

Verdict

Not relevant for Weijia. Full-time social robotics and autism intervention focus. Zero overlap with NLP/agent/RL research agenda.