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Shelly Bagchi (Fed)

Robotics Researcher, Collaborative Robotics Lab

Shelly Bagchi is an Electrical Engineer at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland.  Shelly is the Project Lead for the Performance of Emerging Technologies for Robotics (PETR) Project within the Measurement Science for Robotics and Autonomous Systems Program at NIST.  Her research interests are in human-robot interaction, replicability & reproducibility, and augmented reality.  Shelly chairs the IEEE Standards Group P3108, Recommended Practice for Design of Human Subjects Studies in Human-Robot Interaction, and is the secretary for IEEE P3107, Standard Terminology for Human-Robot Interaction.  She serves as a volunteer organizer for several events, including the annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (humanrobotinteraction.org) and the International Symposium on Technological Advances in Human-Robot Interaction (tahri.org).  Shelly also previously managed the NIST Extended Reality Community of Interest (XR-COI), and co-taught the introductory Artificial Intelligence class in Georgia Tech’s Online Masters in Computer Science program, a program which has enrolled over 10,000 students.  She received her Master's in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2015, and her Bachelor's in Computer Engineering from the George Washington University in 2013. 

Awards

2024 - Department of Commerce Bronze Medal for work in Human-Robot Interaction metrics & standards

2021 - Engineering Laboratory Mentoring Award

Selected Publications

Publications

Would Human-Robot Interaction Conferences Benefit From More Formal Reporting?

Author(s)
Patrick Holthaus, Alessandra Rossi, Snehesh Shrestha, Wing-Yue Louie, aysegul ucar, Daniel Hernandez Garcia, Frank Forster, Antonio Andriella, Shelly Bagchi
In an interdisciplinary and evolving research field like human-robot interaction, clear and precise results reporting is essential for study comparability and...

Selected Data and Software Publications

Data and Software Publications

Created September 24, 2019, Updated March 12, 2026
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