Josue Torres-Fonseca

Hi! I am a PhD student at the University of Michigan, Department of Computer Science and Engineering! I work with Dr. Joyce Chai as a member of the Situated Language and Embodied Dialogue (SLED) Lab. My research focuses on language understanding, cognitive development, and embodied agents. Speficially, relating to how robots can take advantage of their ability to interact with the world around them to learn language during spoken interaction with others. Prior to joining the University of Michigan I graduated from Boise State University with a B.S. in Computer Science where during my last two years at Boise State University I performed research advised by Dr. Casey Kennington as a member of the Spoken Language and Interative Machines (SLIM) lab.

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Education

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

Master of Science, Computer Science and Engineering

Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science and Engineering

Publications

SafetyALFRED: Evaluating Safety-Conscious Planning of Multimodal Large Language Models

Josue Torres-Fonseca, Naihao Deng, Yinpei Dai, Shane Storks, Yichi Zhang, Rada Mihalcea, Casey Kennington, Joyce Chai

Findings of the Association of Computational Linguistics 2026 -- San Diego, California, United States

Symbol and Communicative Grounding through Object Permanence with a Mobile Robot

Josue Torres-Fonseca, Catherine Henry, Casey Kennington

Proceedings of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue 2022 -- Edinburgh, UK

HADREB: Human Appraisals and (English) Descriptions of Robot Emotional Behaviors

Josue Torres-Fonseca, Casey Kennington

Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference 2022 -- Marseille, France