Curriculum Vitae

Christopher John Crick, PhD

Associate Professor
Oklahoma State University
Computer Science Department
219 MSCS
Stillwater OK 74078
(203)907-5734
chriscrick@cs.okstate.edu

Research Interests

My research agenda is motivated by two overarching, complementary goals: to ground models of developmental psychology and cognitive science in realized, embodied computational systems; and to use models of human cognition and social development to improve robot control and learning, human-robot interaction and artificial intelligence in general.

Education

Yale University
PhD Computer Science, 2009
Dissertation Topic: Inferring Social Roles and Intention from Motion and Interaction
Committee: Brian Scassellati, Brian Scholl, Drew McDermott, Benjamin Kuipers
MPhil Computer Science
MS Computer Science

Harvard University
MS Computer Science
BA History

Publications

Book Chapters

Reza Marzban and Christopher Crick. Deep NLP explainer: Using prediction slope to explain NLP models. Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning -- ICANN 2021 (I Farkas, P Masulli, S Otte and S Wermter, eds.), Springer, 2021. PDF

Christopher Crick, Graylin Jay, Sarah Osentoski, Benjamin Pitzer and Odest Chadwicke Jenkins. Rosbridge. Tracts in Advanced Robotics: Robotics Research (H Christensen and O Khatib, eds.), chapter 29. Springer, 2016. PDF

Ronak Etemadpour, Lars Linsen, Jose Gustavo Paiva, Christopher Crick and Angus Forbes. Choosing visualization techniques for multidimensional data projection tasks: A guideline with examples. Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics: Theory and Applications (A Ranchordas, J Madeiras Pereira, H J Araujo and J Tavares, eds.), chapter 9. Springer, 2016. PDF

Journal Articles

Elham Madjidi and Christopher Crick. A survey on neural text generation and degeneration. International Journal of Computational Linguistics (IJCL), vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 19-35, 2023. PDF

Russ Messenger, [12 others, including Christopher Crick], and Sabit Ekin. Real-time traffic end-of-queue detection and tracking in UAV video. International Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems Research, vol. 21, pp. 493-505, October 2023. PDF

Yu Li, Hisham Abuella, Md Zobaer Islam, John O'Hara, Christopher Crick and Sabit Ekin. Hand gesture recognition through reflected infrared light wave signals. IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, vol. 51, no. 1, pp. 44-55, February 2021. PDF

Gijs de Boer, [20 others, including Christopher Crick], and Anders Jensen. Data generated during the 2018 LAPSE-RATE campaign: An introduction and overview. Earth Systems Science Data, vol. 12, 2020. PDF

Akash Gupta, Tieming Liu and Christopher Crick. Utilizing time series data embedded in electronic health records to develop continuous mortality risk prediction models using hidden Markov models: A sepsis case study. Statistical Methods in Medical Research, June 2020. PDF

Gijs de Boer, [33 others, including Christopher Crick], and Jason T Kelly. Development of community, capabilities, and understanding through unmanned aircraft-based atmospheric research. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, vol. 101, pp. 684-699, 2020. PDF

Lindsay Barbieri, [31 others, including Christopher Crick], and Gijs de Boer. Intercomparison of small unmanned aircraft system (sUAS) measurements for atmospheric science during the LAPSE-RATE campaign. Sensors, vol. 19, 2019. PDF

Romit Maulik, Omer San, Jamey D Jacob and Christopher Crick. Sub-grid scale model classification and blending through deep learning. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 870, pp. 784-812, July 2019. PDF

Carolina Bejarano, Christopher Cushing and Christopher Crick. Does context predict psychological states and activity? An ecological momentary assessment pilot study of adolescents. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, vol. 41, pp. 146-152, March 2019. PDF

Emily Kieson, Harshal Maske, Charles Abramson, Girish Chowdhary and Christopher Crick. Robots can train humans using principles of operant conditioning through visual reinforcement tools. Journal of Comparative Psychology, vol. 31, 2018. PDF

Christopher Cushing, Carolina Bejarano, Tarrah Mitchell, Amy Noser and Christopher Crick. Individual differences in negative affectivity and physical activity in adolescents: An ecological momentary assessment study. Journal of Child and Family Studies, vol. 27, no. 9, pp. 2772-2779, September 2018. PDF

Ye Gu, Weihua Sheng, Christopher Crick and Yongsheng Ou. Automated assembly skill acquisition and implementation through human demonstration. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 99, pp. 1-16, January 2018. PDF

Amy E Frazier, Adam J Mathews, Benjamin L Hemingway, Christopher Crick, Elinor Martin and Suzanne W Smith. Integrating small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS) into meteorology and atmospheric science: Challenges and opportunities for GIScience. Geoinformatics Forum 2017, vol. 2, pp. 189-199, November 2017. PDF

Erin Brannon, Christopher Cushing, Ryan Walters, Christopher Crick, Amy Noser and Larry Mullins. Goal feedback from whom? A physical activity intervention using an N-of-1 RCT. Psychology and Health, vol. 33, no. 6, pp. 701-712, 2017. PDF

Christopher Cushing, Tarrah Mitchell, Carolina Bejarano, Ryan Walters, Christopher Crick and Amy Noser. Bidirectional associations between psychological states and physical activity in adolescents: An mHealth pilot study. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, vol. 42, no.5, pp. 559-568, June 2017. Finalist for 2017 outstanding article award. PDF

Christopher Cushing, Arwen Marker, Carolina Bejarano, Christopher Crick and Lindsay Huffhines. Latent variable mixture modeling of ecological momentary assessment data: Implications for screening and adolescent mood profiles. Journal of Child and Family Studies, vol. 26, no. 6, pp. 1565-1572, June 2017. PDF

Erin Brannon, Christopher Cushing, Christopher Crick and Tarrah Mitchell. The promise of wearable sensors and ecological momentary assessment measures for dynamical systems modeling in adolescents: A feasibility and acceptability study. Translational Behavioral Medicine, vol. 6, no. 4, December 2016, pp. 558-565. PDF

Sarah Osentoski, Benjamin Pitzer, Christopher Crick, Graylin Jay, Shuonan Dong, Daniel Grollman, Halit Bener Suay and Odest Chadwicke Jenkins. Remote robotic laboratories for learning from demonstration. International Journal for Social Robotics, vol. 4, no. 4, November 2012, pp. 449-461. PDF

Christopher Crick and Brian Scassellati. Controlling a robot with intention derived from motion. Topics in Cognitive Science, vol. 2, Jan. 2010, pp. 114-126. PDF

Kevin Gold, Marek Doniec, Christopher Crick and Brian Scassellati. Robotic vocabulary building using extension inference and implicit contrast. Artificial Intelligence, vol. 173, no. 1, Jan. 2009. PDF

Brian Scassellati, Christopher Crick, Kevin Gold, Elizabeth Kim, Frederick Shic and Ganghua Sun. Social development. IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, Vol. 1, Issue 3, Aug. 2006. PDF

Christopher Crick and Willard Miranker. Apoptosis, neurogenesis, and information content in Hebbian networks Biological Cybernetics, vol. 94, no. 1, Jan. 2006. PDF

Conference Proceedings

Habib Boloorchi Tabrizi and Christopher Crick. Brain-inspired visual odometry: Balancing speed and interpretability through a system of systems approach. Proceedings of the ASCE International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence (CSCI), 2023. PDF

Elham Madjidi and Christopher Crick. Enhancing textual accessibility for readers with dyslexia through transfer learning. Proceedings of the 25th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS), 2023. PDF

Chrisantus Eze and Christopher Crick. Enhancing human-robot collaboration by exploring intuitive augmented reality design representations. Proceedings of the 18th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2023. PDF

Avinash Gupta, Joe Cecil, Rittika Shamsuddin, Sheila Kennison and Christopher Crick. An investigation into the role of affordance in the design of extended reality based environments for surgical training. Proceedings of the IEEE International Systems Conference (SysCon), 2022. PDF

Kyungho Nam and Christopher Crick. Self-trainable 3D-printed prosthetic hands. Proceedings of the 30th IEEE International Conference on Robotic and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2021. PDF

Reza Marzban, Johnson Thomas and Christopher Crick. Targeting the most important words across the entire corpus in NLP adversarial attacks. Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (ICAISC), 2021. PDF

Reza Marzban and Christopher Crick. Interpreting convolutional networks trained on textual data. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods (ICPRAM), 2021. PDF

Reza Marzban and Christopher Crick. Lifting sequence length limitations of NLP models using autoencoders. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods (ICPRAM), 2021. PDF

S M al Mahi, Kyungho Nam and Christopher Crick. Distributed heterogenous robot-human teams. Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), 2019. PDF

Sayanti Roy, Emily Kieson, Charles Abramson and Christopher Crick. Mutual reinforcement learning with robot trainers. Proceedings of the 14th ACM/IEEE Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2019. PDF

Sayanti Roy, Emily Kieson, Charles Abramson and Christopher Crick. A reinforcement learning model for robots as teachers. Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Symposium on Robotics and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2018. PDF

Sayanti Roy, Emily Kieson, Charles Abramson and Christopher Crick. Using human reinforcement learning models to improve robots as teachers. Proceedings of the 13th ACM/IEEE Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2018. PDF

Sayanti Roy, Emily Kieson, Charles Abramson and Christopher Crick. Semantic structure for robotic teaching and learning. Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Symposium on Robotics and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2017. PDF

Sayanti Roy, Harshal Maske, Girish Chowdhary and Christopher Crick. Teaching and learning using semantic labels. Proceedings of the 12th ACM/IEEE Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2017. PDF

S M al Mahi, Matthew Atkins and Christopher Crick. Learning to assess the cognitive capacity of human partners. Proceedings of the 12th ACM/IEEE Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2017. PDF

Sridhar Vemula and Christopher Crick. Hadoop Image Processing Framework. Proceedings of the 4th IEEE Congress on Big Data, 2015. PDF

Ronak Etemadpour, Lars Linsen, Christopher Crick and Angus Forbes. A user-centric taxonomy for multidimensional data projection tasks. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications (IVAPP), 2015. PDF

Harshal Maske, Milecia Matthews, Allan Axelrod, Hossein Mohamadipanah, Girish Chowdhary, Christopher Crick and Prabhakar Pagilla. Collaborative goal and policy learning from human operators of construction co-robots. Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2014. PDF

Rakshit Allamaraju, Hassan Kingravi, Allan Axelrod, Girish Chowdhary, Robert Grande, Christopher Crick and Weihua Sheng. Human aware UAS path planning in urban environments using nonstationary MDPs. Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Robotics and Information (ICRA). PDF

Christopher Crick, Graylin Jay, Sarah Osentoski and Odest Chadwicke Jenkins. ROS and Rosbridge: Roboticists out of the loop. Proceedings of the 7th ACM/IEEE Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2012. PDF

Benjamin Pitzer, Sarah Osentoski, Graylin Jay, Christopher Crick and Odest Chadwicke Jenkins. PR2 Remote Lab: an environment for remote development and experimentation. Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). PDF

Christopher Crick, Graylin Jay, Sarah Osentoski, Benjamin Pitzer and Odest Chadwicke Jenkins. Rosbridge: ROS for non-ROS users. Proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on Robotics Research, 2011. PDF

Christopher Crick, Sarah Osentoski, Graylin Jay and Odest Chadwicke Jenkins. Human and robot perception in large-scale learning from demonstration. Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2011. PDF

Sarah Osentoski, Graylin Jay, Christopher Crick, Benjamin Pitzer, Charles DuHadway and Odest Chadwicke Jenkins. Robots as web services: reproducible experimentation and application development using rosjs. Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. PDF

Sarah Osentoski, Christopher Crick, Graylin Jay and Odest Chadwicke Jenkins. Crowdsourcing for closed loop control. NIPS Workshop on Computational Social Science and the Wisdom of Crowds, 2010.

Gary Berg-Cross and Christopher Crick. Intentions and intention recognition in intelligent agents. Proceedings of the Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems (PerMIS) Workshop, 2010. PDF

Sarah Osentoski, Graylin Jay, Christopher Crick and Odest Chadwicke Jenkins. Brown ROS Package: Reproducibility for shared experimentation and learning from demonstration. AAAI-10 Robot Workshop, 2010. PDF

Christopher Crick and Brian Scassellati. Intention-based robot control in social games. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society Annual Meeting, 2009. Winner of 2009 Higher-Level Cognition Modeling Prize. PDF

Christopher Crick and Brian Scassellati. Inferring narrative and intent from playground games. Proceedings of the 12th IEEE Conference on Development and Learning, 2008. PDF

Christopher Crick, Marek Doniec and Brian Scassellati. Who is IT? Inferring role and intent from agent motion. Proceedings of the 11th IEEE Conference on Development and Learning, 2007. PDF

Maurizio Borsotto, Weihong Zhang, Emir Kapanci, Avi Pfeffer and Christopher Crick. A junction tree propagation algorithm for Bayesian networks with second-order uncertainties. Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, 2006. PDF

Christopher Crick, Matthew Munz and Brian Scassellati. Robotic drumming: Synchronization in social tasks. Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2006. PDF

Christopher Crick and Avi Pfeffer. Loopy belief propagation as a basis for communication in sensor networks. Proceedings of the 19th Conference on Uncertainty in AI, 2003. PDF

Other publications

Christopher Crick and C Thomas Savell. A search method for scientific data in digital libraries. NASA Ames Research Center publication NNA04CB31C, 2004.

Maurizio Borsotto, C Thomas Savell, Jaques Reifman, Reed W Hoyt, Gavin Nunns and Christopher Crick. Life-Signs determination model for warfighter physiological status monitoring. NATO Research and Technology Organization publication RTO-MP-HFM-109-28, 2004. PDF

Funding

Teaching Experience

Oklahoma State University
Professor, Fall 2012-Present
Brown University
Instructor, Spring 2011
Consultant, Fall 2010 and 2011
Yale University
September 2006 to December 2009
Teaching Fellow

Research Experience

Oklahoma State University Computer Science Department
June 2018 to Present
Associate Professor
July 2012 to June 2018
Assistant Professor

Brown Department of Computer Science
December 2009 to June 2012
Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Yale Social Robotics Laboratory
September 2005 to December 2009
Research Fellow

GCAS, Inc.
June 2004 to August 2005
Knowledge Engineer

Professional Activities

University Service

Chair, OSU Computer Science Department Graduate Committee
Member, OSU Computer Science Department Facilities Committee
Chair, OSU Computer Science Department Undergraduate Committee, 2012-2013
Director, Yale Graduate School Conference Travel Fund, 2008-2009
Yale Graduate School Executive Committee, 2007-2008
Yale Graduate Student Assembly, 2005-2009
Yale Graduate Teaching Center advocate, 2006-2009
Yale University Committee on Teaching and Learning, 2006

Contact: Christopher Crick