Publications

2024

  • Mishra, R., Frye, A., Rayguru, M.M., and Popa, D.O., 2024. Personalized Speech Emotion Recognition in Human-Robot Interaction using Vision Transformers. arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.10687. [link]
  • Mishra, R., Welch, K.C., and Popa, D.O., 2024. Human-mediated Large Language Models for Robotic Intervention in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.00260. [link]
  • Kondaurova, M., Smith, A., Mishra, R., Zheng, Q., Kondaurova, I., Francis, A., Sallee, E., 2024. Empatica E4 assessment of child physiological measures of listening effort during remote and in-person communication. American Journal of Audiology, Oct 7:1-10. doi: 10.1044/2024_AJA-24-00078. [link]
  • Ashary, A., Mishra, R., Rayguru, M.M., and Popa, D.O., 2024. MIRA: Multi-Joint Imitation with Recurrent Adaptation for Robot-Assisted Rehabilitation. Technologies, 12(8), p.135. [link]
  • Mishra, R., Frye, A., Surupa S., Duggan D., Pennington R., Kuravackel G., Barnes G., Popa D., 2023. [Title of the paper (double blind review)] Submitted to IEEE/ACM HRI 2025

2023

  • Mishra, R., and Welch, K.C., 2023, April. Social Impressions of the NAO robot and its impact on Physiology. In 2023 11th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII), Special Session on Affective Robotics. [link]
  • Mishra, R., and Welch, K., 2023. Towards Forecasting Engagement in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder Using Social Robots and Deep Learning. In 2023 IEEE SoutheastCon 2023. IEEE. [link] [Finalist for the 2023 IEEE-HKN Best Student Paper Award]

2022

  • Shah, A., Kondaurova, M.V., Mishra, R. ,Pennington, R., Welch, K.C., Kuravackel, G.M., and Zheng, Q., 2022. The effect of a social robot mediator on speech characteristics of children with autism spectrum disorder. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 152(4), pp.A139-A139. [link]
  • Mishra, R., 2022. Towards adaptive and personalized robotic therapy for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. In 2022 10th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Workshops and Demos (ACIIW). IEEE. [link]
  • Saxena, P., Mishra, R., Gupta, K., Gupta, R., and Mishra, R. , 2022. A Low-Cost and Portable Subcutaneous Vein Detection System Using a Combination of Segmentation Methods. In Proceedings of Sixth International Congress on Information and Communication Technology (pp. 869-878). Springer, Singapore. [link]

Posters

2024

  • Prasanna, L., Adair, A., Mishra, R., and Welch, K., 2024. Simulated Industrial Assembly: Robot vs. Paper Instructions. In Proc. of the 22nd Annual Kentucky Posters at the Capitol Undergraduate Research Poster Session, Frankfort, KY, March 7, 2024.
  • Kondaurova, M., Smith, A., Mishra, R., Zheng, Q., Kondaurova, I., Francis, A., Wooten, E., and King, S., 2024. Assessment of Child Physiological Measures of Listening Effort During Telepractice. In Kentucky Speech-Language-Hearing Association (KSHA), 2024.
  • Mishra, R., Loohuis, G.O., and Welch, K.C., 2024. Real-time Biomedical Data as a Shaper of Robot Behavior in Human-Robot Interaction. In Annual SuperCollider Conference for Kentucky NSF EPSCoR Research Poster Session, Louisville, KY, February 2, 2024. [Winner: Mark of Distinction]

2023

  • Mishra, R., Karla Conn Welch. Social Impressions of the NAO Robot and Applications in Robotic Intervention of Autism Spectrum Disorder. In Socially-acceptable robots Workshop at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2023).
  • Armand Zedric Greenwell, Ruchik Mishra, and Karla Conn Welch. Accuracy Analysis of Program Compliance and Additional Developments for Human Robot Interaction in the Observation of Autism Spectrum Disorder. In Proc. of the 21st Annual Kentucky Posters at the Capitol Undergraduate Research Poster Session, Frankfort, KY, March 2, 2023

2022

  • Ruchik Mishra, Irina Kondaurova, and Nazita Taghavi. Severity metric development for diagnosis of autism using social robots. Research!Louisville, University of Louisville, KY. [Winner]