Meet the ZotBot Team

Claire Urata

Project Manager

B.S. Mathematics 2020

"I enjoyed working on this because it was a really cool project idea that allowed me to work with many people from various academic fields, and it couldn't have happened without Will or the incredible team we put together. This has truly been a remarkable research and communication experience that I will carry with me always."

Lyuyang (Steven) Hu

Team Member

B.S. Computer Science and Engineering 2020

"Zotbot and Alexa Prize gave me a unique opportunity to design and build software systems for thousands of real users with the latest language and cloud technologies. I had an amazing team and the freedom to experiment with various creative ideas. These are everything a software engineer could ever ask for. And most importantly, it is a fun project!"

Michelle Liang

Team Member

B.S. Computer Science and

B.A. Business Economics 2021

"I enjoyed working on this project because of our team's wide variety of backgrounds. I felt like I could learn so much from the other members even though we all had our own specific roles."

Yao Du

Team Member

Ph.D. Informatics 2020

"Working on the project: conducting transcript review and analysis and collaborative design voice user experience with socialbot developers."

Jeanette Mai

Chief Marketing Officer

B.A. Business Administration 2021

"I am so grateful for the opportunity to apply my marketing and design skills in the technology industry. I enjoyed being in a team where the goal was constant innovation and I look forward to doing more marketing within tech."

Sameer Singh Ph.D.

Team Advisor

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

at the University of California, Irvine

Ananth G

Team Member

Arseny Moskvichev

Team Member

Ph.D. Cognitive Science 2021

Daniel Agress

Team Member

Ph.D. Mathematics Candidate

Dheeru Dua

Team Member

Ph.D. Artificial Intelligence 2022

William Schallock

Project Manager

B.S. Computer Science and

B.S. Physics 2020

Xuan Liu

Team Member

M.S. Statistics 2020

Yoshitomo Matsubara

Team Member

Ph.D. Computer Science