Jack Kolb
Welcome to this portfolio of my works
I am a roboticist working to expand how agents can become genuine teammates to support people in human-centered environments.
Currently, I am a Research Scientist at
Apple.
I completed my PhD in
Robotics from
Georgia Tech, where I explored how agents can
infer user beliefs,
predict teammate performance, and
support collaboration fluency to enable novel human-AI teaming capabilities. I was advised by
Karen Feigh, and also worked with
Sonia Chernova
and
Harish Ravichandar.
During my studies I had the pleasure of interning with:
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Travelers, researching
factual verification of LLM responses to large, unstructured, and inconsistent knowledge bases.
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Gatik AI, improving the
behavior prediction module of their autonomous vehicle, tailored to their operational domain.
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NextGen Assistive Technologies, developing a
smart home ecosystem for assisted living communities.
I also had various research collaborations spanning
robot learning from demonstration,
generative in-painting,
operationalized human-AI teaming, and
human-in-the-loop agentic systems.
Prior to graduate school, I studied
mechanical engineering
at the
University of California
at Riverside. I was most involved with
RoboSub,
Residential Life, and
IEEE@UCR.
I spend my free time working on side projects and playing piano.