About Me
Hi! I'm Jocelyn, a Master's student at the MIT Media Lab's Personal Robots Group. I graduated from MIT in
2021 with a degree in Computer Science alongisde a minor in Economics. My research interests are in
human robot interaction, behavioral science, and AI ethics. In the past, I've worked at Facebook
(Software Engineering Intern), Citadel (Software Engineering Intern), and Affectiva (Data Science
Intern). I hope my research can be used to improve personalization, educational technology and learning
outcomes, and ultimately contribute to greater equality in education. Aside from my academic work, I
like to sketch characters and write anything ranging from poems to essays to novels. Check out the rest of this
site to learn more!
Research
Lifelong
Personalization via Gaussian Process Modeling for Long-Term HRI
Samuel Spaulding, Jocelyn Shen, HaeWon Park, and Cynthia Breazeal. Frontiers
in Robotics and AI, 2021
Towards Transferrable Player
Models in Educational Games
Samuel Spaulding, Jocelyn Shen, HaeWon Park, and Cynthia Breazeal.
Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
(AAMAS), 2021
Branching principles of animal
and plant networks identified by combining extensive data, machine learning and modelling
Alexander B. Brummer, Panagiotis Lymperopoulos, Jocelyn Shen, Elif Tekin,
Lisa P. Bentley, Vanessa Buzzard, Andrew Gray, Imma Oliveras, Brian J. Enquist and Van M. Savage.
Journal of the Royal Society Interface Volume 18, Issue 174, 2021
Projects
footprnt —Facebook, 2019
Travel the world virtually through footprnt. Explore user-created travel logs from all around the
world.
Writing
ESSAYS & POETRY
Between
Barbed Wire: A Visual Analysis of TIME's Welcome to America —2nd prize, MIT List
Vera Prize for Writing on the Visual Arts
A series of rafts float closer to shore, near the Rio Grande on United States territory. The
riders’ faces are beaten and their hair mangled and sweaty...
READ
MORE
She Lies
Through Her Teeth —MIT Rune Magazine
Every parent has a pet peeve. My mother’s is dishonesty. In her house, even the little white lies
never went unnoticed...
READ MORE
Sugar Glass Cage
—1st prize, Helen Creeley Poetry Prize (High School)
Walking through streets of Nanjing
Lanterns speckled by the carbon dust and debris...
READ MORE
A Needle in Time
—1st prize, Helen Creeley Poetry Prize (High School)
The needle is a fine strand of hair plucked from an aging scalp.
It is intentional in
physiology...
READ MORE
ON TECH
Machines and Medicine
—The Tech (MIT Newspaper)
Artificial intelligence is beginning to cement itself as a useful tool for researchers and
engineers alike, and it has the potential to become a new addition to the health professional’s
toolkit...
READ MORE
Mental Health and the Brain
—The Tech (MIT Newspaper)
Research into the human brain has rapidly grown in the past few decades, and scientists and
patients alike are beginning to understand the importance of mental health awareness...
READ
MORE
NOVELS
Time Zone —1st prize, MIT Boit Manuscript
Prize
Juneau is a mess. From the outside, she has it all together: she is smart, warm, and well-liked.
But behind closed doors, she lets all the pent-up emotions flood out. Haiden is her best friend.
He’s her rock, but he’s also absolutely off-limits. Caught in the midst of turbulence back home
and at school, Juneau struggles to uncover her own identity as the voices around her are so
disharmonious. The only thing that helps her drown out the noise is Haiden. There’s just one
problem: he’s moving to the other side of the world in three months.
But with a heart full
of hope, she wonders if perhaps their love can perservere across every time zone.
Told
through a mixture of traditional narrative and social media posts, Time Zone is a
story about love in the digital age, mental health, and racial identity.
Artwork
PAINTING
SKETCHBOOK
