Joyce Chai’s research interests are in the area of artificial intelligence, particularly natural language processing, situated dialogue agents, human-robot communication, and intelligent user interfaces. Her recent work has focused on grounded language processing to facilitate situated communication with robots and other artificial agents. Prior to joining U-M, she was a professor at MSU, directing the Language and Interaction Research Lab . At U-M, she’s a member of Michigan AI Lab and directs the Situated Language and Embodied Dialogue (SLED) research group. She’s also affiliated with Michigan Robotics Institute .