I work to build partnership between WPI Robotics Engineering and Industry and I manage two NSF-funded graduate programs: 

• WPI's ROSE-HUB (Robots and Sensors for Human Well-being), a multi-university NSF-funded Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) focused on applied robotics and sensing research in a wide range of industries.
• WPI's Future of Robots in the Workplace Research & Development Traineeship program (FORW-RD NRT), also a NSF-funded program focused on developing leaders of the adoption of robotic interfaces and assistants in the workplace.  FORW-RD is an interdisciplinary program focused on developing the graduate trainees (PhD and Masters students) into leaders through program specific courses, interdisciplinary research, and various professional development opportunities.