Chris Reardon and a Meka robotChristopher Reardon, PhD, is a computer scientist and experimental roboticist. His research broadly investigates how to enable robust human-robot teaming in real-world environments through AI and multimodal interaction.

Dr. Reardon has published over 40 peer-reviewed journal and conference articles to date.  Dr. Reardon is an IEEE Senior Member.  He is actively involved in the greater research community, regularly serving in organizational leadership roles at conferences and workshops. 

Research Interests

  • AI-enabled human-robot interaction and teaming
  • emergent technologies and wearables for interaction
  • heterogeneous, multi-robot, air-ground teams
  • real-world and field robotics applications
  • cognitive and perception systems to enable the above

Personal Interests

Outside of work, he enjoys kayaking, xc skiing, and activities like agility with his dog, Hank.