RACHEL MA
About Me
I am a second year doctoral student in EECS (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) at MIT. I am part of the
Algorithmic Alignment Lab , advised by Professor Dylan Hadfield-Menell.
I am broadly interested in AI (NLP, Vision, Foundation Models, Robotics) to help with interactions and alignment between humans and autonomous agents/systems for better decision making and reasoning for assisting humans with everyday tasks.
I am interested in both enabling personalization to human preferences, while maintaining generalized agents.
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Publications
* denotes first author
R. Ma*, J.Qu, A.Bobu, D. Hadfield-Menell “Goal Inference from Open-Ended Dialog” in the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2025. In Submission.
P.JK.Christofferson,R. Ma, A.Bobu, D. Hadfield-Menell “Learning to Search from Belief-Space Plans” in the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2025. In Submission.
R. Ma*, D. Hadfield-Menell “Learning Human Preferences through Open-Ended Dialogue” in the Generative Modeling meets HRI Workshop at Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2024, Accepted. Runner Up Best Paper.
R. Ma*, L. Lam, B.A. Spiegel, A. Ganeshan, R. Patel, B. Abbatematteo, D. Paulius, S. Tellex, G. Konidaris, “Skill Generalization With Verbs” in International Conference for Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2023, Accepted.
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2023-present)
2nd year EECS PhD Student
Brown University (2019-2023)
Sc.B. Computer Science with Honors ("Skill Generalization With Verbs")
A.B. Music with Honors ("Odyssey")
University of Toronto Schools (2013-2019)
Middle and High School Diplomas
Other Certifications
Licentiate Diploma in Piano Performance (2019)
Associate Diploma in Piano Performance (2016)
Associate Diploma (ARCT) and Licentiate Diploma (LRCM) are the highest academic standings awarded by the Royal Conservatory of Music Certificate Program