Anca D. Dragan

8.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
96 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Anca D. Dragan is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Social Psychology and Control and Systems Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Anca D. Dragan has authored 96 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 34 papers in Social Psychology and 34 papers in Control and Systems Engineering. Recurrent topics in Anca D. Dragan's work include Reinforcement Learning in Robotics (32 papers), Robot Manipulation and Learning (30 papers) and Social Robot Interaction and HRI (25 papers). Anca D. Dragan is often cited by papers focused on Reinforcement Learning in Robotics (32 papers), Robot Manipulation and Learning (30 papers) and Social Robot Interaction and HRI (25 papers). Anca D. Dragan collaborates with scholars based in United States, Algeria and Italy. Anca D. Dragan's co-authors include Siddhartha S Srinivasa, Sanjit A. Seshia, S. Shankar Sastry, Dorsa Sadigh, Nathan Ratliff, Jodi Forlizzi, J. Andrew Bagnell, Matt Zucker, Matthew Klingensmith and Christopher M. Dellin and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of the American Statistical Association and Proceedings of the IEEE.

In The Last Decade

Anca D. Dragan

91 papers receiving 3.8k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

CHOMP: Covariant Hamiltonian optimization for motion planning

2013 470 citations Anca D. Dragan, Siddhartha S Srinivasa et al. profile →
Legibility and predictability of robot motion

2013 332 citations Anca D. Dragan, Siddhartha S Srinivasa et al. profile →
Engagement, user satisfaction, and the amplification of divisive content on social media

2025 14 citations Smitha Milli, Anca D. Dragan et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Anca D. Dragan United States	32	1.9k	1.4k	1.3k	1.1k	487	96	4.0k
Yiannis Demiris United Kingdom	34	1.4k 0.7×	1.2k 0.8×	1.2k 0.9×	1.3k 1.2×	154 0.3×	235	4.3k
Rachid Alami France	26	1.3k 0.7×	1.1k 0.8×	1.2k 0.9×	1.4k 1.2×	151 0.3×	114	3.4k
Dirk Wollherr Germany	33	1.2k 0.6×	682 0.5×	691 0.5×	1.2k 1.1×	860 1.8×	183	3.4k
Alan C. Schultz United States	22	1.1k 0.6×	1.2k 0.9×	1.4k 1.1×	780 0.7×	101 0.2×	48	3.5k
Sonia Chernova United States	25	2.7k 1.4×	2.4k 1.7×	559 0.4×	1.1k 0.9×	103 0.2×	130	4.5k
Nicholas Roy United States	36	1.2k 0.6×	2.1k 1.5×	1.0k 0.8×	2.4k 2.1×	159 0.3×	85	4.9k
Aaron Steinfeld United States	31	505 0.3×	1.0k 0.7×	1.6k 1.2×	604 0.5×	370 0.8×	146	3.7k
Holly A. Yanco United States	31	896 0.5×	778 0.5×	1.7k 1.3×	680 0.6×	112 0.2×	134	3.6k
Brenna Argall United States	22	2.0k 1.0×	1.5k 1.0×	737 0.6×	719 0.6×	92 0.2×	72	4.7k
Maya Çakmak United States	34	1.7k 0.9×	1.9k 1.3×	1.3k 1.0×	959 0.9×	47 0.1×	132	4.3k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Anca D. Dragan

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Smith, Lewis, et al.. (2024). Gemma Scope: Open Sparse Autoencoders Everywhere All At Once on Gemma 2. 278–300. 4 indexed citations

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Kwon, Minae, et al.. (2024). Toward Grounded Commonsense Reasoning. 5463–5470. 7 indexed citations

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Knox, W. Bradley, et al.. (2024). Learning Optimal Advantage from Preferences and Mistaking It for Reward. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 38(9). 10066–10073. 3 indexed citations

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Russell, Stuart, et al.. (2024). A Generalized Acquisition Function for Preference-based Reward Learning. 2814–2821. 3 indexed citations

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Brown, Daniel S., et al.. (2023). The Effect of Modeling Human Rationality Level on Learning Rewards from Multiple Feedback Types. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 37(5). 5983–5992. 9 indexed citations

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Lee, Kimin, Laura Smith, Anca D. Dragan, & Pieter Abbeel. (2021). B-Pref: Benchmarking Preference-Based Reinforcement Learning. arXiv (Cornell University). 3 indexed citations

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Milli, Smitha, et al.. (2020). Reward-rational (implicit) choice: A unifying formalism for reward learning. Neural Information Processing Systems. 33. 4415–4426. 4 indexed citations

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Abbeel, Pieter, et al.. (2019). On the Feasibility of Learning, Rather than Assuming, Human Biases for Reward Inference.. International Conference on Machine Learning. 5670–5679. 1 indexed citations

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Dragan, Anca D., et al.. (2019). SQIL: Imitation Learning via Regularized Behavioral Cloning.. arXiv (Cornell University). 13 indexed citations

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Xu, Kelvin, et al.. (2018). Few-Shot Intent Inference via Meta-Inverse Reinforcement Learning. 2 indexed citations

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Pandya, Ravi, et al.. (2018). Learning Human Ergonomic Preferences for Handovers. 3257–3264. 19 indexed citations

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Bajcsy, Andrea, Dylan P. Losey, Marcia K. O’Malley, & Anca D. Dragan. (2017). Learning Robot Objectives from Physical Human Interaction. Rice University's digital scholarship archive (Rice University). 78. 217–226. 38 indexed citations

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Hadfield-Menell, Dylan, Stuart Russell, Pieter Abbeel, & Anca D. Dragan. (2016). Cooperative Inverse Reinforcement Learning. arXiv (Cornell University). 29. 3909–3917. 56 indexed citations

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Liu, Chang, Jessica B. Hamrick, Jaime F. Fisac, et al.. (2016). Goal Inference Improves Objective and Perceived Performance in Human-Robot Collaboration. Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agents Systems. 940–948. 15 indexed citations

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Dragan, Anca D., Rachel Holladay, & Siddhartha S Srinivasa. (2015). Deceptive robot motion: synthesis, analysis and experiments. Autonomous Robots. 39(3). 331–345. 18 indexed citations

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Dragan, Anca D., Andrea L. Thomaz, & Siddhartha S Srinivasa. (2013). Collaborative manipulation: new challenges for robotics and HRI. Human-Robot Interaction. 435–436. 3 indexed citations

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Cha, Elizabeth, Anca D. Dragan, & Siddhartha S Srinivasa. (2013). Effects of robot capability on user acceptance. Human-Robot Interaction. 97–98. 4 indexed citations

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Dragan, Anca D., et al.. (2013). Legibility and predictability of robot motion. Human-Robot Interaction. 301–308. 217 indexed citations

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Klusek, Z., Paweł Majewski, & Anca D. Dragan. (2010). CW and CHIRP signals bottom backscattering in the PEZ of the Baltic sea. Hydroacoustics. 13(1). 135–142. 2 indexed citations

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Klusek, Z., et al.. (2010). Preliminary investigations on implementation of technology of broadband signals for marine biology and sediments recognition. Hydroacoustics. 13. 143–152. 1 indexed citations

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